I think General Motors is another one very publicly making the same kind of announcement. It does seem like a competitive decision motivated by the car business.

But that’s not the reason why, chaos is, though I imagine it didn’t give them pause. We all can speculate about what comes next. My guess is Elon saying he “inherited a mess” much more “broken” than he could have imagined. I also notice bots aren’t much part of the conversation any longer.

He certainly doesn't want to sue himself for fraud...

Like Walmart not running their services on AWS.

Volkswagen was very close to Musk in the past.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas...

Musk and Diess were close, but as far as I know there was never any cooperation between the companies.

I can think of multiple distinct reasons not to run any ads on Twitter right now. Which is frankly making me really sad, as I liked Twitter, and had some respect for Elon:

- The CEO also owns/leads a primary competitors (as you said).

- The political turmoil attracts a lot of bad-for-brand content on the platform.

- Having ads on Twitter makes it seem like you support what Elon's doing.

- Elon firing 85% of the staff means the platform's behavior, security and results are unreliable and can't be trusted.

- Looming bankruptcy of Twitter (announced by the CEO himself).

What respect did you have for musk?

He's rich

Pushing at businesses everyone said are a stupid idea and will fail. People forget what the status quo was. Oh, I know he didn't found Tesla, and I know he didn't personally build the rockets in Space X. But such initiatives still need champions.

I think asking people why people have respect for "X" is acting like it's not okay to have an opinion? There are tons of people that like(d) Elon Musk for various reasons. It's just an opinion, not something that has to be validated to a random internet person.

Bold of you to attack the act of asking "why" on a site dedicated to gratifying intellectual curiosity.

twitter was my favorite next to reddit. Now it's dying and that sucks. The controlled chaos is what made it strong, kind of like reddit. Now that Musk is trying to put it into a straight jacket of his ego, brings in the worst of the worst banned twitter accounts, it's doomed, or will become so diminished it doesn't matter any more like digg.

Woah, digg still exists?

Oh, it's garbage now. Neat.