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Submission + - Over half of Twitter's largest advertisers aren't buying ads (cnn.com)

quonset writes: Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, he's had to contend with an exodus of ad revenue dollars. Despite firing thousands of people, including an engineer who told Musk his popularity on the site was plummeting, Twitter is still bleeding money. Now comes a report showing over half of Twitter's largest advertisers have stopped buying ads.

Some 625 of the top 1,000 Twitter advertisers, including major brands such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, Jeep, Wells Fargo and Merck, had pulled their ad dollars as of January, according to estimates from Pathmatics, based on data running through January 25.

As a result of the pullback, monthly revenue from Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers plummeted by more than 60% from October through January 25, from around $127 million to just over $48 million, according to the data.

Even among the top advertisers that remain, many have dramatically reduced their ad spending on the platform, according to Pathmatics data. HBO, for example, was Twitter’s top advertiser in September, spending nearly $12 million on ads that month, but for the month of January (as of January 25), it spent just over $54,000. (HBO, which is owned by CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

Submission + - SPAM: Ask Slashdot: Is Slashdot website code still open source? How to contribute?

guest reader writes: This Wikipedia page contains the following note:
It is unclear whether Slashdot still uses Slash or some newer look-alike since around 2009.

The wikipedia page continues:
Slashdot runs on Slash, a content management system available under the GNU General Public License. Early versions of Slash were written by Rob Malda in the spring of 1998. After Andover.net bought Slashdot in June 1999, several programmers were hired to structure the code and render it scalable, as its users had increased from a few hundred to tens of thousands. This work was done by Brian Aker, Patrick Galbraith and Chris Nandor, resulting in version 2 of the software, released in 2001. Slash remains Free software and anyone can contribute to development.

External links from the wiki page:
- Slash on SouceForge which has last update 2016-03-11
- slashcode on GitHub which has last update 2015-04-21
- rehash on GitHub, SoylentNews Rehash code which has last update 2023-01-01

About Slashdot contains the following information:
This is Slashdot, a website based on and running the Slashdot-Like Automated Story-Telling Homepage software. This link then points to Slash Git which has last update 2009-09-22.

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Comment Too freaping expensive (Score 1) 82

To replace my current iPhone with a 512GB (I have a lot of music) iPhone 14 Pro would cost $1300 bucks. Wayyyyyyy too much money. The carriers only give any sort of a discount if you're upgrading 4 phones, a recent phone to trade in (then why upgrade?) or are switching carriers. Eff 'em all.

Comment I cheat (Score 1) 222

I don't use the smart features and just have them behind an Apple TV. They only go on the internet to do periodic firmware updates when I use my phone as a hotspot. Since I've never accepted their privacy policy, they won't do anything else. When I'm done hotspot is turned off. Oh, and NO commercials either.

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