Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion

[Jason]

26 minutes ago, Rico said:

What is SpaceX selling to Twitter users?

Trips to the moon?

[gotbeer]

54 minutes ago, Rico said:

What is SpaceX selling to Twitter users?

Probably nothing.  It's Musk's way to funnel money from one of his companies that is making a profit, to another company that is losing money, without paying taxes.  Especially since both are private, so he doesn't have to answer to shareholders.  

[Jay]

1 hour ago, Rico said:

What is SpaceX selling to Twitter users?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/tech/twitter-spacex-elon-musk

“SpaceX Starlink bought a tiny – not large – ad package to test effectiveness of Twitter advertising in Australia & Spain,” Musk wrote in a reply to one Twitter user, adding that he did the same on competitors such as Facebook, Instagram and Google.

 

[Crampknees]

1 hour ago, gotbeer said:

Probably nothing.  It's Musk's way to funnel money from one of his companies that is making a profit, to another company that is losing money, without paying taxes.  Especially since both are private, so he doesn't have to answer to shareholders.  

Good take.  That doesn't alarm me much, normal business when you get to that point. I will never have a log-in so implode it or launch rockets off the top of corporate.  He is going to have to go to the gym to become Tony Stark. 

[Rico]

[Amazing Larry]

All those excess leeches fired from Twitter and the site still continues to function properly. It's almost like Musk knows how to run a company.

[cals]

1 hour ago, Lhalo said:

All those excess leeches fired from Twitter and the site still continues to function properly. It's almost like Musk knows how to run a company.

You’re not stupid so when you say incredibly stupid shit it makes me laugh.

[cals]

As opposed to getting sad every time Jason speaks.

[Amazing Larry]

41 minutes ago, cals said:

You’re not stupid so when you say incredibly stupid shit it makes me laugh.

What's stupid about it? He fired a bunch of dead weight and the company is still operating.

[cals]

1 hour ago, Lhalo said:

What's stupid about it? He fired a bunch of dead weight and the company is still operating.

It’s imploding.

[Jason]

19 minutes ago, cals said:

It’s imploding.

There was no way it wasn't going to with the amount big changes he made at one time. The platform may stabilize in the future but I kind of hope it just falls apart and disappears forever.  

[Amazing Larry]

23 minutes ago, cals said:

It’s imploding.

It was imploding before he bought it. Twitter lost over $270 million in Q2 alone.

He's sees a way to make it profitable and it's not by paying people to sit around and bitch about conservatives in the company provided safe space.

[AngelsFaninGA]

Musk is a complete jackass who has no idea how to run a company, and I say that as a conservative. Having worked for multiple similar work-is-life blowhards, this sort of thing extends way beyond political affiliation or "free speech." 

[AngelsFaninGA]

29 minutes ago, Jason said:

There was no way it wasn't going to with the amount big changes he made at one time. The platform may stabilize in the future but I kind of hope it just falls apart and disappears forever.  

Not sure if 4chan is even still around but it'll probably just end up in a similar boat. Fringey 3rd-tier platform that just kind of hangs out but doesn't quite die. 

[cals]

45 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

It was imploding before he bought it. Twitter lost over $270 million in Q2 alone.

He's sees a way to make it profitable and it's not by paying people to sit around and bitch about conservatives in the company provided safe space.

Ha ha, OK Larry.  We will see. 

[Redondo]

Clinton-linked dark money group targeted Twitter advertisers amid Elon Musk's takeovers

Accountable Tech and dozens of left-wing groups have targeted Twitter's top advertisers

Accountable Tech spearheaded a letter to top Twitter advertisers as part of a larger pressure campaign demanding "non-negotiable" requirements for their business, saying that Musk's takeover will further "toxify" the social media giant and directly threaten public safety. 

"Twitter has outsized influence in shaping both public discourse and industry-wide platform governance standards," the letter states. "While the company is hardly a poster-child for healthy social media, it has taken welcome steps in recent years to mitigate systemic risks, ratcheting up pressure on the likes of Facebook and YouTube to follow suit."

"Musk intends to steamroll those safeguards and provide a megaphone to extremists who traffic in disinformation, hate, and harassment," it continues. "Under the guise of 'free speech,' his vision will silence and endanger marginalized communities, and tear at the fraying fabric of democracy."

The group demands that advertisers commit to keeping accounts of politicians and public figures removed for "egregious violations" off the platform, ensuring "algorithmic accountability" and continuing their "commitment to research transparency and researcher access" - or drop their business.

It's unclear what companies received Accountable Tech's letter, which is also signed by 25 other liberal groups, including Media Matters and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/clinton-linked-dark-money-group-targets-twitter-advertisers-amid-elon-musks-takeover

[Jay]

21 hours ago, Lhalo said:

All those excess leeches fired from Twitter and the site still continues to function properly. It's almost like Musk knows how to run a company.

Elon Is Firing Twitter Employees Who Shitpost About Him in Slack

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-slack-firing-employees-shitpost-1849785512

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Never heard of Slack before this. I guess it's sort of like MS Teams.

[RallyMo]

Man, remember when all of you bozos were roasting @Rico because he used Twitter?

[Lou]

Just now, mypillow.com said:

Man, remember when all of you bozos were roasting Rico because he used Twitter?

Looks like the roasting was deserved.

[RallyMo]

Just now, Lou said:

Looks like the roasting was deserved.

In context relative to today and how most of the bozos are linking to tweets and have been doing so for quite a while now, it wasn’t. It had nothing to with the internal issues that Twitter has and presently faces.

[Lou]

1 minute ago, mypillow.com said:

In context relative to today and how most of the bozos are linking to tweets and have been doing so for quite a while now, it wasn’t. It had nothing to with the internal issues that Twitter has and presently faces.

That just makes the people doing it now dumbasses, too. 

 

With all due respect.

[Amazing Larry]

1 hour ago, mypillow.com said:

Man, remember when all of you bozos were roasting @Rico because he used Twitter?

During the whole Trump hooker pissing nonsense? Ya I remember that shit lol.

[Taylor]

3 hours ago, Lou said:

Looks like the roasting was deserved.

Was it deserved for the last five or six years when several board conservatives regularly linked to Twitter?

[Lou]

7 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Was it deserved for the last five or six years when several board conservatives regularly linked to Twitter?

Yes. 

[Taylor]

17 minutes ago, Lou said:

Yes. 

I agree.