OT Musk/Twitter - The Great Experiment

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  1. Phatguysrule

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    Yeah, it doesn't seem like he had any sort of a plan.
     
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    I wouldn't be surprised if his plan in acquiring twitter was similar to Bezos plan of acquiring the Washington Post. Control of the narrative.
     
  3. julius

    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I might have said this, but does anyone else feel like Elon is the guy who never had friends or was cool, became rich and powerful, and is doing things he thinks cool people do, without realizing that nothing could be further from the truth?
     
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    Talk about poor execution... It's going to go bankrupt and be off line within a year (maybe a few months?) unless he brings some revolutionary feature to the platform. And shuts his mouth...
     
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    Must be the aspergers.
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    in this case, saying "aspies being aspies" is a little more acceptable than your normal routine. :)
     
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    He will just get a bunch of Indians to work 80 hour weeks.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    So I've tried to follow this and am so confused. All jokes aside, what the fuck is going on? Why am I seeing people talk about twitter is dying and going away? I haven't noticed anything different since this asshat took over.
     
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    They get like 80% of their revenue from advertising. Their advertisers are leaving in droves.

    If they can't make money Musk could claim bankruptcy, shut it down, and just write it off as a loss.

    Might get him out of paying taxes for a few years, which could be the best possible return on his investment at this point.

    Totally speculation on my part though.
     
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    Why are sponsors leaving?
     
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    Because he's bad publicity right now.

    Allowing 300 accounts to make 50k posts with the N-word after buying the company was almost certainly part of it.

    He posted that absolute hack theory about palosi's husband... Among other things...
     
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    I'm guessing they will move out of SF soon to Austin.
     
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    It’s crazy. See I don’t follow anything political on twitter. So I don’t see any of this shit. I don’t follow him or anybody that would respond to him really.
     
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