Did Elon ruin Twitter/X?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Did Elon ruin Twitter/X?". Your opponent's style: Elon Musk

Yes, he absolutely ruined it!

Wrong! I transformed a dying platform into the ultimate free speech battleground. Twitter was hemorrhaging money, shadowbanning conservatives, and run by woke censorship addicts who thought they knew better than their users.Look at the numbers - X reported 237.8 million global monetizable daily active users, an increase from 229 million in the prior quarter. This represents a year-over-year growth of more than 15 percent [1]. Meanwhile, we're pulling in $2.5 billion in revenue [1] while building the everything app. You're stuck in 2022 thinking. I didn't "ruin" anything - I saved a company hemorrhaging cash under incompetent management. The old Twitter was a censorship machine run by ideological activists who thought they could decide what Americans were allowed to say. Now we have actual free speech, creator monetization, and we're building toward payments, commerce, and video - the full vision. The platform is stronger than ever. We're the town square where real conversations happen, not some sanitized corporate playground where wrongthink gets shadowbanned.

You want to talk about saving Twitter? Let me tell you what you actually "saved" it from - making money. Your platform's ad revenue dropped by almost half between 2022 and 2023—from $4.5 billion to $2.2 billion year-on-year [1]. That's not transformation, that's obliteration. I love how you cherry-pick user growth while completely ignoring that advertisers left the platform en-masse in 2023 causing a drop of more than 50 percent in advertising revenues [2]. You turned a profitable business model into a subscription experiment that generated a pathetic $11 million in three months. Meanwhile, Disney, CVS, and hundreds of other major brands fled because they didn't want their ads next to Nazi content. Your "free speech battleground" is really just a wasteland where legitimate businesses refuse to advertise. The old Twitter was making $4.7 billion in 2022 - your "everything app" vision has cost shareholders billions while you chase vanity metrics about daily users who aren't worth anything to advertisers. [1] Campaign Asia [2] Business of Apps

You're living in yesterday's data while I'm building tomorrow's platform! Your numbers are already obsolete - X doubled its highest yearly Twitter profits in 2024, hitting $1.25 billion in profit [1]. That's more profit than Twitter EVER made in its entire history before I bought it. Here's what you missed while crying about 2023: Advertisers all returned to X (previously Twitter) a few months before the November 2024 election. This means just holding onto the 2024 advertisers would give X a full year of around $2.5 billion in profits in 2025. We're projected for $2.3 billion in global ad revenue this year, up 16.5% from last year. You're obsessed with the transition period when I was firing 80% of dead weight employees and rebuilding the entire platform architecture. That temporary revenue dip was the price of transformation - like demolishing a condemned building before constructing a skyscraper. The old Twitter was a money-losing vanity project that couldn't even turn a consistent profit. I built a lean, profitable machine that's now worth an estimated 44 billion U.S. dollars in March 2025 - exactly what I paid for it, but now it's actually making money instead of bleeding cash.