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Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal

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Re: Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal

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If Musk acquires Twitter, I will likely be deleting my account. Am I the only one? Would his acquisition spell the beginning of the end for Twitter?

If it turns into a 4chan-esque dumping ground (sorry, I mean "bastion of free speech") then yes I definitely would stop using Twitter.

Re: Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal

#42
The cost to code and market a Twitter clone would be a tiny fraction of $45b. If the existing Twitter is so bad that Elon needs to buy it and save it, then the value of the userbase is low - particulary considering that the time cost for a user to switch is much lower than say a Myspace to FB shift.

I am assuming that Elon is not this much of a dumbass - what am I missing here?

Re: Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal

#43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really hard to imagine the richest and most accomplished dude on the planet not being able to secure funding. Somehow people still think he’s just a showman. At some point in time, accomplishments can’t be explained away

Accomplished? He's got money and hired some smart people. And tech media is more than happy to ignore all the stupid shit he's done and tried.

He’s the chief engineer and product designer at Tesla, and the chief engineer at SpaceX, as well as CEO of both. He led the design and engineering of rockets that land, cutting the cost of space travel by one order of magnitude. Meanwhile he created the most valuable car maker in the world and forced the rest of the industry to bring forward their electric car plans by a decade. And these things weren’t accidents, he often tells the world what his goals are before accomplishing them. And he’s the richest man in the world. He’s many things, but not unaccomplished.

Re: Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal

#45

If Musk acquires Twitter, I will likely be deleting my account. Am I the only one? Would his acquisition spell the beginning of the end for Twitter?

Seems a little dramatic to delete your account, don't you think?

It really depends on if he follows through on what he is proposing, which seems to be to allow for disinformation and hate speech. If that turns out to not be the case, then I might reconsider.

Re: Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accomplished? He's got money and hired some smart people. And tech media is more than happy to ignore all the stupid shit he's done and tried.

Electric sports cars Self-landing rockets Underground tunnel systems Brain-computer interfaces OpenAI leading AI research PayPal Accomplished? Meh!

All of those things existed before Musk. Is he retroactively giving himself credit for those things like he did with Tesla?

EVs are over a century old. SpaceX was recreating NASA research. Subways have been a thing for over a century; literally millions of people use them every day. Paypal's tech stack used Thiel's startup's technology; they jettisoned everything from Musk's stack and moreover fired him for gross incompetence.

Re: Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal

#48

If Musk acquires Twitter, I will likely be deleting my account. Am I the only one? Would his acquisition spell the beginning of the end for Twitter?

If Musk acquires Twitter, I will likely create a Twitter account.

> Am I the only one? Would his acquisition spell the beginning of the end for Twitter?

And for all Twitter blue checks to go where? Tik Tok?

Re: Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal

#49

If Musk acquires Twitter, I will likely be deleting my account. Am I the only one? Would his acquisition spell the beginning of the end for Twitter?

No.. but there might be an exodus of people like yourself offset by others onboarding.

Re: Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal

#50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He’s not just a showman, but he is a showman. And it’s not like you have to dig back into ancient history to find instances where he invented a bid like this, he basically made up a bid for Tesla a few years ago and lied about having secured financing.

Internal chat between Musk and the Saudi investors just popped up on my twitter feed https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1518353213283442688 Doesn't seem like the funding secured thing was an outright lie.

Nowhere in the emails do the Saudi investors pledge funding. At best, they say they might be interested in investing.

Therefore, "funding secured" was absolutely an outright lie, unless words don't have meaning anymore.

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