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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sactoking

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So it seems like browser access without an account has been fully shut down? I did to be able to type in a URL with a direct search query in it to get info on my state's legislative session but now all URLs appear to redirect to the homepage for a login.
 

nakedfrog

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So it seems like browser access without an account has been fully shut down? I did to be able to type in a URL with a direct search query in it to get info on my state's legislative session but now all URLs appear to redirect to the homepage for a login.
Still works fine for me?

And LOL, going to twitter dot com in a private window, of the first 5 tweets it showed me, 2 are from fuckboi Musk himself.
 

sactoking

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It appears to be just poundtags that aren't working in a browser without login. I can follow a Twitter embed link to a specific account but even then the poundtags won't work.
 

VRAMdemon

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“Oh, you provide useful content to my platform for free that brings in views from over a million people? That will be $50,000 a month please.”

When I was on Twitter and living in PA there were several accounts I followed just for that sort of information. Elon this clueless about who his customers are. Realtime updates are crucial to some. He’s destroying what was once a great service.
 

fskimospy

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I feel that the decision to put blue check responses at the top is the thing that might really kill Twitter. Previously responses were sorted by how much people liked/engaged with them to promote conversation. Now it’s just if some incel paid $8.
 

K1052

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I feel that the decision to put blue check responses at the top is the thing that might really kill Twitter. Previously responses were sorted by how much people liked/engaged with them to promote conversation. Now it’s just if some incel paid $8.

This among other things. More and more stuff seems to break, charging absurd fees for API access, banning accounts that complain at all about Musk, labeling news orgs like NPR as state media, spite adding famous people as verified who haven't paid and stated as much, etc. Just an avalanche of bad decisions that will further tank revenue as advertisers continue to flee the sinking ship.

I assume the PE guys are on top of the capital stack and will own the place inside another 6 months.
 

Pens1566

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I'd be curious to see what a legit valuation of twitter would be right now. Guessing low single digit in the billions, max. Likely dwindling every day.
 

fskimospy

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I'd be curious to see what a legit valuation of twitter would be right now. Guessing low single digit in the billions, max. Likely dwindling every day.
At this point I feel like someone would be nuts to buy it at any price, arguably the value of it is negative given the amount of debt Musk saddled it with.

Like if tomorrow Twitter announced the last year didn’t happen and it was rolling back to April, 2022 I feel like so much damage is already done.
 

Pens1566

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At this point I feel like someone would be nuts to buy it at any price, arguably the value of it is negative given the amount of debt Musk saddled it with.

Like if tomorrow Twitter announced the last year didn’t happen and it was rolling back to April, 2022 I feel like so much damage is already done.

I kinda agree in that it's almost been irredeemably tarnished at this point. I could see someone with an offer of like 1-2B of "throwaway" money try to salvage it if none of the alternatives catch on. They'd just roll back all the Musk changes like you said and hope it somewhat recovers.
 

Dave_5k

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I kinda agree in that it's almost been irredeemably tarnished at this point. I could see someone with an offer of like 1-2B of "throwaway" money try to salvage it if none of the alternatives catch on. They'd just roll back all the Musk changes like you said and hope it somewhat recovers.
Only if buying it at a bankruptcy auction - no way anyone would take on the current massive debt and liabilities without getting guaranteed relief first. $12.5 billion in publicly known bank debt, who knows how much in other "guaranteed" obligations (like to the Saudis or PE).
 

Zorba

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“Oh, you provide useful content to my platform for free that brings in views from over a million people? That will be $50,000 a month please.”

When I was on Twitter and living in PA there were several accounts I followed just for that sort of information. Elon this clueless about who his customers are. Realtime updates are crucial to some. He’s destroying what was once a great service.
Really, realtime updates that could be accessed without an account was the best part of the service.
 
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