Readit NewsInterestingly, it’s not in the table in this article.
> Advertising revenue was $31.498 billion, up 12% year-over-year. Excluding foreign exchange impact, advertising revenue grew 13%.
98.4% of their revenue is ads!
Full earnings: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/26/meta-to-report-second-quarte...
> Earnings: $2.98 per share vs. $2.91 expected by Refinitiv.
> Revenue: $32 billion vs. $31.12 billion expected by Refinitiv.
> Daily Active Users (DAUs): 2.06 billion vs 2.04 billion expected, according to StreetAccount.
> Monthly Active Users (MAUs): 3.03 billion vs 3 billion expected, according to StreetAccount.
> Average Revenue per User (ARPU): $10.63 vs $10.22 expected, according to StreetAccount.
In that light, I think it was an incredible feat of engineering for the late 60s, and early 70s. Keep in mind, Japan was unable to land a probe on the moon as recently as last year.
Do I think it was worth it? That's debatable, but the engineers and scientists involved accomplished something pretty fantastic and that alone deserves some merit.
I'm curious - what caused you to question it ever happening?
Edit: for the downvoters, some excerpts:
> The BBC exchange showed Musk as alternately conciliatory and erratic.
According to whom?
> He also said that he's sleeping on a couch at work, that he followed through on his promise to purchase Twitter only because a judge forced him to, and that he should stop tweeting after 3 a.m.
this is a lot to say without any specific quotes
> Like so many policy decisions at the social network of late, Musk applied the label to NPR's Twitter account abruptly. It's still not clear why he became so animated about the issue.
Heavy use of adverbs and adjectives is like injecting opinion.
> For years, many journalists considered Twitter critical to monitoring news developments, to connect with people at major events and with authoritative sources, and to share their coverage. Musk's often hastily announced policy changes have undermined that.
Again, according to who??
Let's leave out the Elno companies that take gov money hand over fist, why is this label not applied to every company that gets tax benefits, took out govt loans?
My spouse is not in tech but in comms. The quickest I know she's done an application has been O(hours) primarily due to writing cover letters, personalizing resume and often sending in clips.
Having seen that, I find it amusing that we techies (yes me too) get annoyed when we have to provide our Linkedin AND all the information on that page.