By Jahnavi Nidumolu and Krystal Hu

(Reuters) -Twitter’s money stream stays destructive due to an almost 50% drop in promoting income and a heavy debt load, Elon Musk mentioned on Saturday, falling in need of his expectation in March that Twitter may attain money stream optimistic by June.

“Want to succeed in optimistic money stream earlier than we have now the posh of anything,” Musk mentioned in a tweet replying to solutions on recapitalization.

That is the most recent signal that the aggressive cost-cutting measures since Musk acquired Twitter in October alone aren’t sufficient to get Twitter to money stream optimistic, and suggests Twitter’s advert income could haven’t recovered as quick as Musk recommended in an interview in April with the BBC that almost all advertisers had returned to the positioning.

After shedding hundreds of workers and slicing cloud service payments, Musk had mentioned the corporate lowered its non-debt expenditures to $1.5 billion from a projected $4.5 billion in 2023. Twitter additionally faces annual curiosity funds of about $1.5 billion because of the debt it took on within the $44 billion deal that turned the corporate non-public.

It’s unclear what timeframe Musk was referring to by the 50% drop in advert income. He has mentioned Twitter was on observe to publish $3 billion in income in 2023, down from $5.1 billion in 2021.

Twitter has been criticized over lax content material moderation, adopted by an exodus of many advertisers who didn’t need their advertisements showing subsequent to inappropriate content material.

Musk’s hiring of Linda Yaccarino, former advert chief at Comcast (NASDAQ:)’s NBCUniversal as CEO, signaled that advert gross sales are a precedence for Twitter whilst it really works to extend subscription income.

Yaccarino began working at Twitter in early June and has instructed buyers Twitter plans to deal with video, creator and commerce partnerships and is in early talks with political and leisure figures, funds companies, and information and media publishers.

On Thursday, Twitter mentioned that choose content material creators shall be eligible to get part of the advert income the corporate earns in an try to attract extra content material creators to the positioning.