Comment Re:Funny, because Twitter/X seems to keep on truck (Score 4, Insightful) 135
It did have a big backlash of advertisers. The estimates are that despite adding subscription revenue, they lost half their revenue, and projections and estimates for the future keep being adjusted downward. This is also with Musk making SpaceX and Tesla throw ad dollars at X for the sake of boosting X's situation.
They've also had a 10% decline in active users since Musk took over, exacerbating the advertising problem and imposing a bound on the theoretical potential for subscription revenue.
Even toward the "free speech" angle, there's signs of him penalizing speech he doesn't like, so it's more like "free speech so long as Elon likes it".
So QAnon type folks are happier with it, but most everyone else sees a degraded experience.