Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

Post by aoeusnth1 » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 8:42 PM UTC

mike00632 wrote: post #739

gunapologist99 wrote: post #521

So Twitter was at $70 per share a year ago. So what? Jack Dorsey was CEO a year ago, too. The share price was $33 less than a month ago. But, despite an absolutely incredible roller-coaster news cycle, things have been definitely trending down at Twitter ($33/share last month), which was reflected in its share price. The current executive team (and Dorsey) had wasted time focusing on things that didn't matter instead…

"NO RISK"? There is a very clear risk of transformating the social media titan that is Twitter into Truth Social, a sideshow of a forum that is dedicated to the worship of one man. That would plummet the stock price.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 8:43 PM UTC

fleddr wrote: post #827

Twitter is a mob launch pad. It's ran by outrage addicted, sadistic, cruel bullies. It's as if all of the world's village idiots joined forces and became the ruling class in culture and speech. It is Twitter that has normalized and promoted inhumane tactics like context switching, bad faith discussion, talking behind you to others instead of towards you (quote tweeting), screenshotting, obsessively digging through on…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 8:51 PM UTC

dgudkov wrote: post #661

I bet some of those who advocated "it's a private company, it can deplatform whoever it wants" are probably re-thinking their stance on deplatforming from a major social media.

Post by indigodaddy » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 8:54 PM UTC

Post by lampshades » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 8:58 PM UTC

pastor_bob wrote: post #857

just adding to this historic post