Elon Musk buys $3 billion stake (9.2%) in Twitter and is now the platform's largest shareholder

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Anonymous wrote:LOL.

It’s too bad your parents never sat you down and gave you a talk about evaluating claims made in right wing media.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently Musk is having some kind of psychological break.

You’re implying that this a break from normal for him. Not only is this normal for him, using a poop emoji to reply the CEO of the company you’re trying to buy during an ongoing negotiation, on a platform you’re negotiating for, is hilarious. I know it’s DC and everyone is uptight around here, but still…

It's not hilarious. It's unhinged.

Elon is married to Grimes, named one of his children X Æ A-Xii, said he would take Tesla private at 420 a share (a pot reference for you DC squares), and smoked a joint live on air with Joe Rogan while musing about aliens and DMT. Dropping a poop emoji a week after he said he was going to take over Coca Cola so that he could put cocaine back in the soft drink was not him having a “psychological break.” It’s him acting like he always has. And apparently it’s worked. When the uptight naysayers on here revolutionize the electric vehicle industry and secure government space flight contracts maybe they can scoff at his behavior. But he’s such a game changing figure because of this type of behavior. If he wasn’t the character he’s always been he’d probably be right here with you and I tossing barbs from the sideline while we rake in a safe salary at our boring jobs.

Where were all of these criticisms years ago when he was making Teslas? It’s so odd that people just started turning on him when he wanted to take over Twitter and not be so censorious. A lot of people are very afraid of not having the final say over who gets to say what on social media and it’s very telling.

I do not think that his bizarre social hijinx are what make Musk a game-changing figure. Bezos has been equally impactful (possibly moreso), and he doesn't behave like a lunatic in public. I think that Musk has put in effort to cultivate a cult-like following, and that's why you see so many people defending him as somehow more of a visionary than some of the other billionaire tech moguls. Amazon has changed every aspect of retail and logistics for consumer goods, and AWS has completely upended the IT sector. There is literally no aspect of your life Amazon doesn't touch, even if you have never paid a dollar to any of their services.

Regardless, though, tech moguls are not humanities saviors. They are good at certain things and not good at others. Personally, I think that the wealth they are allowed to amass and the influence that wealth gives them (not their technologies per se) is not good for society. For example, why should Bill Gates get to have so much of a say over global public health...regardless of his motivations? I don't believe that he is the best qualified person on earth to have the influence he has...I just think he's a smart guy who happens to have amassed a fortune in the SW sector and that was enough to allow him to dominate the public health discussion as well. It's a problem when we outsource so much to a handful of billionaires...we live with their strengths and also their weaknesses.

One could argue that by turning electric vehicles into a luxury item and popularizing electric vehicles more than anyone else Musk has had much more of a positive impact on the world than Bezos, who has led to the death of small businesses across the country, dumbed down the Washington Post, and is much more of a negative figure overall.

I just find it odd that all these Democrats are so quick to vilify someone who has had such an unquestionably positive impact on climate change via Tesla. There would be a lot more carbon emissions in this world without Elon and his influence.

When I hear Republicans calling for more EVs and less reliance on gas and oil then I’ll think he’s had a big influence.

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Anonymous wrote:Twitter board is already started to turn the screws on Musk

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/17/elon-musk-twitter-will-enforce-merger

"The board and Mr. Musk agreed to a transaction at $54.20 per share," Twitter's board said in a statement to The New York Times. "We believe this agreement is in the best interest of all shareholders. We intend to close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement.”

Will be interesting to see how thing plays out.

Billionaire games.

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Anonymous wrote:Twitter board is already started to turn the screws on Musk

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/17/elon-musk-twitter-will-enforce-merger

"The board and Mr. Musk agreed to a transaction at $54.20 per share," Twitter's board said in a statement to The New York Times. "We believe this agreement is in the best interest of all shareholders. We intend to close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement.”

Will be interesting to see how thing plays out.

Billionaire games.

My prediction: it ends up with Musk paying a lot of money to his lawyers, bankers, and Twitter....but he doesn't end up owning Twitter. He bit off more than he could chew in a rising rate environment. Had he tried this last fall, he would've succeeded.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL.

Inactive accounts aren’t fake accounts. I didn’t log into my Twitter account for nearly a year and a half when I had just lost interest for a while, but I assure you I am a real person.

Moreover, the 5% estimate from Twitter explicitly referred to daily active accounts, which means by definition it would not include all of the inactive accounts included in this calculation.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL.

Inactive accounts aren’t fake accounts. I didn’t log into my Twitter account for nearly a year and a half when I had just lost interest for a while, but I assure you I am a real person.

Moreover, the 5% estimate from Twitter explicitly referred to daily active accounts, which means by definition it would not include all of the inactive accounts included in this calculation.

A lot of people have Twitter accounts to browse and follow a few people to keep up with what is going on there but don’t post or comment because they are government employees or are contractors or others who aren’t allowed to express their opinions or don’t want to engage in the vitriol on Twitter. They are real people with real accounts but are simply observers.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL.

Inactive accounts aren’t fake accounts. I didn’t log into my Twitter account for nearly a year and a half when I had just lost interest for a while, but I assure you I am a real person.

Moreover, the 5% estimate from Twitter explicitly referred to daily active accounts, which means by definition it would not include all of the inactive accounts included in this calculation.

+1 And also “SparkToro used the same audit on Musk himself and found that nearly 70.2% of Musk’s 93.3 million Twitter followers were fake.”

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Anonymous wrote:LOL.

Inactive accounts aren’t fake accounts. I didn’t log into my Twitter account for nearly a year and a half when I had just lost interest for a while, but I assure you I am a real person.

Moreover, the 5% estimate from Twitter explicitly referred to daily active accounts, which means by definition it would not include all of the inactive accounts included in this calculation.

+1 And also “SparkToro used the same audit on Musk himself and found that nearly 70.2% of Musk’s 93.3 million Twitter followers were fake.”

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Anonymous wrote:LOL.

It’s too bad your parents never sat you down and gave you a talk about evaluating claims made in right wing media.

It's a shame your parents never sat you down and gave you a talk about doing your own research when you doubt sources.
It isn't only right wing media, friend.

https://www.newsweek.com/half-joe-biden-twitter-followers-are-fake-audit-elon-musk-1707244

Almost half of President Joe Biden's current 22.2 million followers on Twitter are fake accounts, according to an audit tool provided by software company SparkToro.

SparkToro's tool found that 49.3 percent of accounts following the official @POTUS Twitter account are "fake followers" based on analysis of a number of factors, including location issues, default profile images and new users.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL.

It’s too bad your parents never sat you down and gave you a talk about evaluating claims made in right wing media.

It's a shame your parents never sat you down and gave you a talk about doing your own research when you doubt sources.
It isn't only right wing media, friend.

https://www.newsweek.com/half-joe-biden-twitter-followers-are-fake-audit-elon-musk-1707244

Almost half of President Joe Biden's current 22.2 million followers on Twitter are fake accounts, according to an audit tool provided by software company SparkToro.

SparkToro's tool found that 49.3 percent of accounts following the official @POTUS Twitter account are "fake followers" based on analysis of a number of factors, including location issues, default profile images and new users.

Newsweek is right wing.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL.

It’s too bad your parents never sat you down and gave you a talk about evaluating claims made in right wing media.

It's a shame your parents never sat you down and gave you a talk about doing your own research when you doubt sources.
It isn't only right wing media, friend.

https://www.newsweek.com/half-joe-biden-twitter-followers-are-fake-audit-elon-musk-1707244

Almost half of President Joe Biden's current 22.2 million followers on Twitter are fake accounts, according to an audit tool provided by software company SparkToro.

SparkToro's tool found that 49.3 percent of accounts following the official @POTUS Twitter account are "fake followers" based on analysis of a number of factors, including location issues, default profile images and new users.

I’m the pp to whom you’re replying and Newsweek is right wing. Welcome to the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Musk is trying to drive down Twitter stock imo, trying to play with markets. I hope the SEC kicks him again

Musk is SUCCEEDING in driving down the stock price. It's 100% manipulation and he should be prosecuted.

Yes, this seems like a Musk ploy to drive twitter value down. twitter should sue him and SEC should prosecute Musk.

There will definitely be a twitter shareholder lawsuit about this.

My prediction came true

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Anonymous wrote:Musk is trying to drive down Twitter stock imo, trying to play with markets. I hope the SEC kicks him again

Musk is SUCCEEDING in driving down the stock price. It's 100% manipulation and he should be prosecuted.

Yes, this seems like a Musk ploy to drive twitter value down. twitter should sue him and SEC should prosecute Musk.

There will definitely be a twitter shareholder lawsuit about this.

My prediction came true

Every time I think of Elon I just think woof. What a waste of humanity. So stupid. So pompous.

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Bro, you signed away your rights to due diligence to force the board to accept your hostile takeover.

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Anonymous wrote:Bro, you signed away your rights to due diligence to force the board to accept your hostile takeover.

LOL! Someone has cold feet.