Twitter C/D

Fidelity Investments is claiming it's in the $15B range now. Still seems high, but they have a $300M stake in the original deal

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/9jUgoyCI0biXF_dJMnYlUM8iYiE=/232x0:3965x2800/1200x900/media/img/mt/2017/10/RTX1RDRD/original.jpg

it's worth 0 owned by musk but part of the valuation is the idea that if he sold it to someone who veered hard and course corrected it could partially recover. depends to what extent you think elon caused the decline (and if so whether it's reversible) or if it was already inevitable before he bought. also trump's second presidency will be good for twitter (and media generally)

yeah idk once the death spiral starts its hard to stop (why they call it a death spiral)

i do think he caused it fwiw

Of course he did. No one could do this by accident.

opening twitter for one second

The chant at Liverpool Street as many have pointed out is indeed not "intifada" but "ceasefire now" . Apologies.

— Simon Schama (@simon_schama) November 1, 2023

it's Free Parking all over again

Apologies.

You can tell that came straight from his heart. it is practically a mirror image of it.

This account may enter a period of inactivity as I am being indicted for securities fraud at 4PM tomorrow. Stay tuned for further updates.

— crazy ass moments in nu metal history (@numetal_moment) October 31, 2023

new revenue streams

Emails obtained by Forbes reveal that a team within the company, known as the @Handle Team, has begun work on a handle marketplace for the purchase of account names left unused by the people who originally registered them. In at least some cases, X/Twitter has emailed solicitations to potential buyers requesting a flat fee of $50,000 to initiate a purchase.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/03/elon-musk-x-has-started-selling-off-old-twitter-handles

i wonder if he gave $50k to the guy who had @X originally

Twitter 'For You' currently showing me one single post, Corbyn at the rally. has been like this all day.

thats the only post for you

throw all the other twitters back on the shelf

now replaced by a single tweet from Owen Jones, also at the rally.

Cringe levels off the charts with this entire venture

Nice to meet you Grok. So, you're funny, super curious, and a little spicy sometimes too? That's my kind of friend. Old BFFs move aside. https://t.co/ewlzaEUEhR

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 5, 2023

Yay pic.twitter.com/VYj9LqdEP9

— curiousnewton (@curiousnewton) November 5, 2023

wow owned

if i was worried about revenue streams i would simply not make my product so toxic that no serious business wants to be associated with it

the world is clamoring for a more racist ai

As Musk has sacked teams that would've responded there is a lot of Palestinian content on twitter
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Walid Mahmoud 
@WalidMahmodRouk
Israeli official: We are facing a problem with pro-Palestinian content on Telegram and X.
Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have responded to 92% of our requests to remove palestinan content since the start of the Aggression on Gaza

interesting

Apparently, Elon has never read either The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or Stranger in a Strange Land.

prob not a big book guy

there's a reason he's so salty about wikipedia -- it's where he spends all his time

no shade towards Hitchhiker's Guide but I fear that Elon would become even more annoying if he read it

Otm

That would be a singularity of annoyance.

I imagine he'd try to become Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged

So now all my "Notifications" are about random tweets I've never interacted with.

hey maybe you want to know about them

check out this tweet

because you liked that tweet, we're recommending this other tweet. evening? sorted!

Classic.

Greedy CEO who pretends like he’s self made. In reality, just a clown & fraud. Always has been, always will be. Quit the tough guy act in these senate hearings. You know where to find me. Anyplace, Anytime cowboy. #LittleManSyndrome pic.twitter.com/JNvT7IsA6m

— Sean M. O'Brien (@TeamsterSOB) June 21, 2023

lol get him

oof

Exclusive: Apple is pausing all advertising on X, formerly Twitterhttps://t.co/RV69yHZHIi

— Ina Fried (@inafried) November 17, 2023

I'd like to see someone actually say they will pull advertising completely and never return, rather than these 'pauses'

yeah was thinking the same

It’s a Humanitarian Pause

the benefit of pausing is that it gives apple the time to turn toward the camera, break the 4th the wall, and really level with the consumer before resuming

I was thinking, sure, nice move, but remember when all those big companies "paused" shortly after Elon purchased it in the first place and they mostly came back and it made no difference at all?

eh i think ad revenue is still down significantly

yeah I thought it was a fact that their revenue was down like 70% since he bought it, plus I mean if you just hop on there now clearly the ads are uhhh quite a bit different now

I'm not really surprised they're using the word "paused", aren't people still sort of assuming he's going to sell at some point?

Who needs IBM anyway when you're still attracting advertisers of this calibre to your site?

👩‍🍳 Keep your fingers safe from sharp knives with the Stainless Steel Finger Protector!

👸Get It Now👉 https://t.co/iViI1cx99C pic.twitter.com/LNY9BSbWd7

— Pavevo (@pavevocom) November 5, 2023

^^i definitely see more weird junk ads than anything these days, the big companies even if they haven't given it up totally certainly appear to have pulled back

Why are you even all still looking at Twitter at this late date, who even posts anymore

its still good for sports

xpost basically everyone who always has

I saw one righteous defense, which was basically "I was here before you, asshole," and another funny defense, basically "the only reason I am still here is so that I can benefit financially from the inevitable class action suit."

xp i dont think that's remotely true, I'm barely on there myself unless it's to follow an NBA or NFL game I can't watch. when I go on otherwise it really does feel about half as active as it used to be