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🗓️ 22 March 2023
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Today is Wednesday, March 22, and we're looking at Meta vs. Twitter.
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1:07.8 | The From Wondery, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Wednesday, March 22nd. |
1:12.0 | Another week, another story of the world of Twitter, where the chaos hasn't seemed to slow down. In November, new owner Elon Musk laid off around half of the company's |
1:17.3 | workforce, then promised there would be no more major layoffs. Fast forward to last month, however, |
1:23.1 | when another 200 employees found themselves suddenly out of a job. On top of the layoffs, advertisers |
1:28.9 | have been pulling back from the platform. Nearly half of Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers in September |
1:34.9 | stopped spending on the platform by January of this year. That meant lost revenue for the tech |
1:40.6 | giant and a lot of bad blood amongst employees who'd been let go. |
1:45.3 | But Musk keeps telling the public everything is fine. At a conference in early March, |
1:50.0 | Musk said Twitter's financial outlook was stabilizing. He noted that layoffs in cost-cutting |
1:55.5 | had slashed $3 billion from Twitter's operational budget, and, he said, there was a chance the company |
2:02.5 | could have positive cash flow in the second quarter of this year, according to the New York Times. |
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