Elon Musk

why would he buy it to keep it the same does he think its gonna change so much that he wont be able to post, credit to max where its due twitter works good for musk and hes not going to do things to threaten that, but still his motivation for the buying it remains mysterious, maybe he just likes twitter so much he wants to have it hold it in his hands idk, i do suspect hes got some more businessy plan too tho

the free speech thing is transparently at least mostly bs tho i bet he does change the rules some maybe back to where they were a while ago when you were allowed to make death threats

but hes buying it for some reason

idk if you were actually formally allowed to make death threats but you at least could do it without censure

if i had to guess at his business ambitions for twitter id guess they lay at the nexus of thinking he can make it better and thinking he can pump and dump it

he’s doing it so he can slide into the dms of women not following him

xp problem is there's only one rich idiot willing to buy Twitter

xp self tho matt levine suggested a third use in that nyer interview i posted upthread which is using it to pump and dump other things, which of course is something elon has already done extensively but could do even more if he controlled the platform and had access to all its data

He might say, “Look, I get so much value out of this direct access to the public.” Owning that direct access to the public—owning that thing that creates so much value for Elon Musk and Tesla—it has to be valuable somehow, whether it’s by increasing the value that it creates for Tesla, or whether it’s by finding a way to monetize the value that it creates for sports stars and celebrities and Donald Trump and lots of other people. You know, Donald Trump’s tweets back when he was on Twitter could create billions or trillions of dollars’ worth of market moves, right? And Twitter never made a lot of money off of that. It’s not obvious how the company would, but if you’re sitting on top of a thing that can create that much value, surely, if you’re really smart then you can extract some value out of it.

problem is there's only one rich idiot willing to buy Twitter

― frogbs, Tuesday, April 26, 2022 3:55 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he could take it public again and rely on his arm of fans to buy it

he is actually on the record now about what he means by "free speech", and his definition is not maximally bad fwiw.

By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.

I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.

If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.

Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022

he definition seems idiotic, but it's not "twitter is now international waters"

twitter is maritime law

flying under the "I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX" flag of convenience

of course

reasonable point

"Far" is the (welcome! and valuable!) giveaway that this is essentially bullshit https://t.co/OBvRQsW1as

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) April 26, 2022

eh, if musk were a careful writer i would agree, but i don't think a precise, word-level reading of musk tweets is a good use of scocca's time.

but yeah, that tweet seems ... not inconsistent with max's thesis

It's utter gobbledygook.

i don't know about you all, but i'm still on @jack's enlightened path. i am following the thin clear light, not the thick smoky red and yellow lights

So $1bn/year in debt service on Twitter itself and almost that on his personal loans?

Twitter getting Toys R Us-ed would be pretty cool.

Levine mentioned bringing in equity for his personal stake - Musktokens sold to his most rabid fanboys to help him live the dream?

nice circular reasoning there you dumb idiot

I wonder how he will react to endless bot creation of accounts that constantly put him down

attack of the Anti_muskbots

does his purchase include the title of 'twitter founder'

lol

when will the $54.20 tweet be sold as a NFT?

The stock market does not really make all that much sense to me. I just don't see why businesses like Tesla and Twitter are hyped as being worth THAT much f'n money based on their actual sales. I get that they have unique technology and could grow into their big boy pants, but I can't get why they are worth like 8 times more than a company that sells 6-7 times more dollars worth of the same stuff. It just just doesn't seem to me that Microsoft or Oracle or any of the tech now true "bluebloods" were that out of whack in the days of 90s stock market hard on yore.

I got to go back to reading comics or listening to rock or playing guitar as if I start focusing on this stuff I wish the sun would go nova and wipe this planet out of the heavens.

It is pretty fucked up that for 99.9% of the planet money is a tangible thing that you only earn so much of each month but for certain ultra rich people it’s more of an idea which has nothing to do with your actual value or work ethic and is based on all sorts of imaginary concepts like speculation and leverage, plus can be manipulated in all sorts of (illegal) ways to ensure that the only people who will be affected by your shitty decisions are those who can afford it least

lol did not see the first part of that tweet

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRUGxSMWYAAigeA?format=jpg&name=medium

If I got from one of the tweets I read, basically Twitters total sales is like Olive Garden...which would not have sold for 43Billion dollars. Is this correct or am I misunderstanding the situation?

"Free speech is the law, man"

https://thegatewayonline.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Elon-musk-blunt.jpg

If I got from one of the tweets I read, basically Twitters total sales is like Olive Garden...which would not have sold for 43Billion dollars. Is this correct or am I misunderstanding the situation?

to be fair the electric car market is due to undergo significantly more expansion than the family friendly italian chain restaurant market.

hospitaliano has always been undervalued by wall street

eyyy I make-a the sauce

I wish Italian Elon Musk bought Twitter instead.

Oh wait you said twitter not tesla... nah i got nothing.

No refundo

like Olive Garden, Twitter offers unlimited sadness and fuckwits

i went to Olive Garden once and the busboy who walked by saw my shirt and said "Iron Maiden? (giggle) wow!"

you will find him buried under Tropicana Field

ah well nevertheless

It’s looking increasingly likely that Elon Musk will withdraw his $44 billion takeover offer for Twitter. https://t.co/Mcf7PbiC0a

— Ian Fraser (@Ian_Fraser) April 27, 2022

(nothing definitive in the article just speculation fwiw)

There are good reasons for him to get cold feet. The biggest is Tesla. The electric-vehicle maker’s stock has fallen around a fifth since Musk first revealed his stake in Twitter, partly because Musk may sell shares to fund his new adventure. If Tesla’s stock bounces back – likely if the Twitter deal falls away – the $40 billion of recouped wealth would more than make up for the break fee.

the homonculi in my brain in my brain rn

https://i.imgur.com/2AYRAjc.png

announcing he's going to buy Twitter, posting a shitload about how he's going to "fix" it, then not actually buying it would be so incredibly in character

lmao i wish i could get my opinions posted on reuters.com

just get a job as an opinion writer for reuters.com

*takes notes*

pic.twitter.com/1CE7rjBrNH

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 27, 2022

The agreement also stated Musk would have to pay Twitter $1bn if he walks away from the deal.

That might make twitter actually profitable for a week or two

fucking timcast

lol Freddie DeBear:

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/just-keep-it-off-my-timeline?s=r