Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

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fskimospy

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Sorry, all out of medals.
He basically went pedo guy on NYT when they declared they wasnt gonna pay for his blue crap. Lol.
I'm not sure if it's stupidity or desperation but he seems to think people value a blue check next to their name a lot more than they actually do.
 

cytg111

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I'm not sure if it's stupidity or desperation but he seems to think people value a blue check next to their name a lot more than they actually do.
Its Assbergers... when your social ineptness unintentionally puts your asshole personality on display for the world to see.
So stupidity. Its stupidity. And yes men around him. What a fucking dork.
To someone like Elon social media is kryptonite, and he is dumb enough to gobble it up like candy.

STAY ON THE FUCKING ROCKETS ELON AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!
 

MrSquished

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At this point if I was a vendor I'd be careful doing business with Twitter. Elon thinks he is so special he can get away with not paying bills. Also it is inevitable he declares bankruptcy at some point for Twitter. It's not if, it's when. He'll mess with it for a bit convinced he is God, but God will declare bankruptcy in this case.
 

fskimospy

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Its Assbergers... when your social ineptness unintentionally puts your asshole personality on display for the world to see.
So stupidity. Its stupidity. And yes men around him. What a fucking dork.
To someone like Elon social media is kryptonite, and he is dumb enough to gobble it up like candy.

STAY ON THE FUCKING ROCKETS ELON AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Sure, very well could be. I also don’t know what he can do to salvage the business at this point. Even if he reverted all his changes tomorrow I don’t think the advertisers would come back as they were. He’s kind of stuck monetizing it in this way and it seems impossible.

This looks to go down as one of the most catastrophic business mistakes in history.
 

MrSquished

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Sure, very well could be. I also don’t know what he can do to salvage the business at this point. Even if he reverted all his changes tomorrow I don’t think the advertisers would come back as they were. He’s kind of stuck monetizing it in this way and it seems impossible.

This looks to go down as one of the most catastrophic business mistakes in history.

Elon's next book - 'How to make 44 billion dollars go Poof, and not in any kind of magic dragon way'
 
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Pens1566

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I'm not entirely sure if this is being done to remove the stigma or if he suddenly discovered they could not pull the legacy checks efficiently/quickly. Maybe both.

Anyway I've never seen so much work for a few million dollars of revenue when he's chased literal billions out the door never to return.

I think you're being generous here ...
 
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They changed the Twitter log onto the dogecoin dog and now doge up 20% as a result. No manipulation there I’m sure.

Edit: Stupid autocorrect.
 
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Elon is involved in a lawsuit about dogecoin. Is this whole thing a way to obfuscate that fact?

Yeah nothing says “I wasn’t running a scam” that inflated the price like showing how easily you can inflate the price…..
 
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So my "Following" tab turned into a shit storm combination of MAGA assholes and borderline (at best) stormfront members today. None of which I follow.

Yeah, that site is just humming along ...
Well honestly who is left there? Everyone that I know bailed shortly after Elon took over.
 

Ajay

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Well honestly who is left there? Everyone that I know bailed shortly after Elon took over.
I follow folk in Formula1, Catholic Theology, Computer Hardware, Geopolitics and the URK-RUS war. No one has dropped their feed. Sadly, I dropped Phys.org at one point because they were flooding the zone. Ars does that every once and a while too.
 

fskimospy

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If people want to know why Matt Taibbi doesn’t get or deserve respect anymore this is why:

I watched that. It was painful, especially the Modi part. I have no idea why Taibbi agreed to that interview and even more, didn’t prepare an answer for questions he was obviously going to be asked.

Taibbi is probably comfortable in his new spot as a right wing media personality so maybe he doesn’t care that he comes off as at best an incompetent.