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What a clown. Probably made the offer knowing it won't get accepted anyway. Then sells his shares at a nice profit and goes on with his day. That said, it would be interesting to see how Musk would destroy Twitter, instead of seeing Twitter continue to do it themselves.
Twitter is a dying social network - sounds like a pretty good deal.
BTW why is this called hostile?
This seems like a massive waste of money. Firstly, it will kill remaining trust in twitter and secondly the opportunity cost of spending that much money, like why not expand Telsa into India, or Asia in a big way.
I don't have an opinion over the consequences for politics over this, I'm just excited over the potential shakedown of the social media landscape that I grew to despise. Musk is an activist, can make it or break it. He is absolutely right over its enormous potential, all the problems it has - as a business or ones it creates for the society - can be solved. Free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial once yo…
This is probably the core motivation behind the $2/month blue checkmark fee proposed by him. You don't need to moderate social media if you can just send the cops credit card details of the person spam-posting swastikas, agitating for violence or breaking other established laws. I hope we all agree that laws against libel, glorification of crime, threatening people are not exactly censorship.
Well you should have nationalized it while you could've BTW why is this called hostile?
I don't have an opinion over the consequences for politics over this, I'm just excited over the potential shakedown of the social media landscape that I grew to despise. Musk is an activist, can make it or break it. He is absolutely right over its enormous potential, all the problems it has - as a business or ones it creates for the society - can be solved. Free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial once yo…
What unrealized potential does Twitter have left after 16 years of existence?
Twitter is incredibly popular, but as Docker already showed, being incredibly popular doesn't have to translate to financial success.
Good old activist investing. Carl Icahn would be proud.
I wonder if there's a name for this sort of behaviour?
Well you should have nationalized it while you could've BTW why is this called hostile?
Well you should have nationalized it while you could've BTW why is this called hostile?