انخفاض قيمة أكس/تويتر infographic
Graphic charts the fall in value of X/Twitter since 2021.
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انخفاض قيمة أكس/تويتر

By Ninian Carter

January 4, 2024 - خفضت شركة فيدَليتي إنفستمنتس (Fidelity Investments)، التي تمتلك حصة بقيمة 19 مليون دولار في شركة أكس (X) (تويتر سابقاً)، بتخفيض قيمة استثمارها بنسبة 71.5% في أعقاب التحديات التي أدت إلى انخفاض حاد في إيرادات إعلانات منصة التواصل الاجتماعي.

Fidelity Investments mutual fund – which in October 2022 spent $19.2 million to buy a stake in X (formerly Twitter) – has devalued its investment by 71.5% from the original valuation of shares.

Challenges facing X include:

1) Billionaire owner Elon Musk’s decision to restore accounts of previously banned users, who are prone to hate speech, such as conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, former U.S. President Donald Trump, and far-right influencer Andrew Tate.

2) X needs to convince advertisers to return to the platform after big spenders including Apple, Comcast/NBCUniversal, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, IBM, and Paramount Global pulled out of the platform due to Musk’s erratic style of management.

3) In November 2023, at the DealBook Summit, Musk told boycotting X advertisers to “go f**k yourself” during an on-stage interview with the New York Times.

To mitigate the loss in advertising revenue, X is now looking to encourage small to medium sized businesses to spend money on the platform.

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PUBLISHED: 04/01/2024; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images
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