I remember the old days, where a 'social' media plan would have 50% on Facebook, 50% on Twitter, then you'd go from there based on results. A long time ago!

I'm wondering who today, with so many more performant and less toxic alternatives available, is working with brands/advertisers who are running on X? Is anyone seeing good results there, or have clients who insist they have a presence there?

EDIT: just adding some more context to this post. I haven't advertised on X for years - other platforms and channels blew it out of the water even before the takeover. And as a user, I left when my feed became full of terrible blue tick posts (whos bright idea was it to reward paid users with reach over users producing good content)

Wondering who is still doing it, especially at a non- enterprise level

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  • Twitter never had good marketing results, even in its heyday. Twitter now X just isn't built for advertising. I haven't tested since it became X, I might guess it is slightly better just because it's improved video feeds may lend itself better to advertisers. But in feed ads just never worked on that platform, there are still lots of daily active users, just not sure why it hasn't been profitable for many, if any, marketing campaigns.

    Some brands have found a way to use Twitter/X organically, but again not sure it has ever really led to traffic, but as a branding tool could still be useful if you have a tapped in clever manager and an audience that is on the platform.

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    It's more commonly used for PR imo, to make brands part of ur daily life, but now advertising on X has the risk of your add ending up before or after a P*rn vid since that's allowed there. Personally I don't see the point to use X when it's filled of bots and most of your traffic will come from them

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    Yeah it's the PR thing for sure. News and media outlets still like to use twitter/X posts in their pieces and don't really do that with other social media. The P*rn is a problem (it really isn't allowed) but I see similar adult content and violence on Instagram/TIkTok as well. It's everywhere, bots are a problem everywhere, It just seems X/Twitter is for some reason still favored by News/Media sites in sources of information so the PR is real.

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    I guess a lot of people in news organisations built careers on Twitter and are hesitant to let it go

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  • I advertise on X. I’ve tried every platform.

    X was always terrible. It’s not any better or worse despite them trying to make it better. People aren’t in the shopping mindset when on X. If they completely integrate with Shopify, have credit cards and addresses saved, allowing a Buy Now button, conversions might be half decent.

    Google is best as always.

    Reddit is trash as well. People here get offended by ads here. Conversion was terrible even though I could have ads right on the right niche subreddits. It’s the same problem as X. People are in the mindset for emotional toxicity when here (sorry it’s the same as X), and not shopping as much.

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    True, people here wanna ask and respond or see memes they mostly don't want to buy anything here

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    The only positive ad I saw on Reddit is the one with the chives cutting topic inserted from PhilyCreamCheese

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  • Hasn’t even come up in discussions in my company despite expanding into Reddit and Meta in the past few months. We’re looking to go where people seek answers, to give you an idea of how far X has fallen.

    From a practical standpoint, do you expect a company that’s purposefully tanking the usefulness of their own LLM to boost their owner’s ego to give you true reporting data? I wouldn’t, personally.

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  • Many years ago, I was one of the alpha testers for Twitter's ad platform. I worked at a fairly well known but small digital marketing consultancy at the time. For certain types of content-driven organisations (which we were), the results were good (including direct commercial conversion. I made us nearly a million quid directly in twitter at one point), but as larger businesses chucked in more cash the results fizzled. Now spending money on the platform is also being willing to say "we don't have an issue having our brand next to... All this". Organic is a total sideshow right now, so I can see why some big, slow-moving B2B cars companies do it (it's because they have reports that include 'impressions') , but for anyone else it's pretty much a terrible idea.

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  • We sell swasticas to nazis what do you want me to do? 

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  • Twitter has always been terrible lol.

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  • It can work and they offer discounts. Cpc is cheap but also a bunch of bots

    Crypto, finance, and niches where your audience is active on x will work best

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  • I advertised on Twitter. It sucked before Elon. I wouldn’t even think of spending an ad dollar now. Even if they didn’t suck.

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  • For the past few years we have consistently seen 80%+ bot clicks on X/Twitter Ads. Reddit isn’t far behind.

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  • Here for the why hahahaha I ditched the platform a while ago now

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  • Where else can you sell white-power shirts?

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