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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#931

I welcome this. Twitter is overrun with bots and anonymous shitposting. He's either going to make it better or invigorate the competition.

It’s almost too obvious what needs to be done. Elon is going to make the last 10 years of Twitter look embarrassing.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#933

Social Media is so horrible. I'm absolutely convinced that humans haven't evolved to handle the insanity that is social media. Yet, they are the public squares. And isolating myself from the cesspools (FB, Twitter, etc) has also isolated me from everyone. Twitter was the last one I used a very small amount (never more than 5 minutes at a time, not more than once a day). This was the final straw for me. No good option…

Quit right before it actually improves after years of stagnation?

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#934

Think of all the awesome stuff he could have done for humankind with that kind of money. But nooooo, he wastes it all on a that dungpool of a website

He’s going to 10x that 43B into 400B and use it for electric cars, solar panels and going to Mars. Twitter has been 10 years of wasted potential that is about to be unlocked.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#937
post #14

I feel for the employees of Twitter. Years with a part time CEO whose time was dedicated elsewhere… now they’ll have a new part time owner whose time will be dedicated elsewhere and has a propensity to do weird things for the online lulz.

Those employees that have stock options are about to get rich.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#938
post #802

>Elon Musk told the United Nations he would give them $6 billion to end world hunger if they showed him a detailed plan of how they would use the money. They called his bluff and gave him their plan— and then they never got the money. Now he’s buying Twitter for $45 billion. https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1518658761979842560 >Here is the executive summary of the UN’s plan for how they would spend the money.…

Feeding everyone for a single year is not ‘solving’ world hunger. That’s why he didn’t pay.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#939

He, undoubtedly, overpaid for Twitter. Also, the blue-check allows key users to distinguish themselves and is one major reason that "notable" people are using Twitter for essentially all their communications. Elon's plan to diminish the blue-check by giving it to anyone who has verified themselves by buying Twitter Blue would be very destructive and hurt Twitter's moat. -- Edit -- Actually, disregard the blue-check c…

Overpaid? There’s a good chance he can 10x Twitters value. He could make the previous 10 year business model look embarrassing. There is so much low hanging fruit out there to improve. The management/board of Twitter has been a train wreck.
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