"I will explain the rationale in longer form"
The rationale: "I want your money"
I really hope all this bs causes Twitter to implode :inshallah:
the end of twitter and Musk losing $44 billion would be a good thing indeed
really low.
He's gone against them on Ukraine and also isn't that important for the machination of the US state
lol twitter debt financing is set to go from $30m/yr to $1by/yr because somehow youre able to buy a company and make that company carry the debt risk for its own purchase. The most twitter has ever made in a year was $660m. Elon is searching the fucking couch cushions here. I've heard that even if every blue check subscribes for $20/mo, it would work out to about $30-60m/yr, not even close to enough. We may be 5 years out from twitter just going bankrupt.
The CIA has its own private equity fund(s) and venture capital companies so if they need to recapitalize Twitter on the quiet, they'll use those.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cias-venture-capital-firm-like-its-sponsor-operates-in-the-shadows-1472587352
they might be thinking of the way Immigration & Customs Enforcement asks for your social media accounts on entry
interesting point, i guess we'll see in the end. on the flip side it's not like its the only social platform out there, and im not sure the influential and powerful out there enjoy having a thousand people point out how much of a dumbass they are in every post they make
Good god what a terrible business man. He could get so much good PR by just making Twitter free of ads and subscription fees. He could afford it and it would be a free advertising platform for Tesla garbage.
But credit to him for proving day after day that wealth doesn't equate to skill or savvy.
oh, so it'll be some completely harebrained shit like "if every legit user buys the blue check, then we would know who the bots are"
People paid lowtax multiple times after getting banned from something awful.
I can see some bot site going "meh it's 80 bux" and setting up ten bots - with checks this time!
I support Steven King in his bullying CEOs into lowering their prices by more than half.
We need an Elon x Stephen King crossover
by which I mean Elon needs to be murdered and chopped into many pieces
Tesla worker: "All work and no unions make workers revolutionary."
King might appreciate the trolls being defeated though; if they were gone who could trick him into publicly supporting holocaust perpetrators?
2027: A consortium of Weird Twitter veterans offers to buy the platform from Musk for just over 1/2000th of what Musk paid. Musk accepts without making a counteroffer.
Where are weird twitter veterans gonna scrounge up 20+ mil?
Well if the Chapo boys and everyone in their orbit all kicked in two years' worth of of Patreon income, that's more than halfway there.
Bluechecks complaining about this are full of shit. They are all addicted to twitter and love that the blue check makes them something better than the average user. Also I think it's funny that King thinks Twitter should pay him for his extremely valuable "Drumpf bad" tweets.
#HumansOfLateCapitalism
I'm off all social media but this plays out like some dystopian shit
