Shocked!
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ETA: Iâm linking because good shots of the aftermath.
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Elon Musk considering âdrastic actionâ as Twitter takeover in âjeopardyâ
Elon Musk has decided that itâs impossible to verify the number of bot accounts on Twitter even though the social media network has told him their estimates, how they arrived at such estimates, and provided his team with a âfirehoseâ of user data that is usually sold to corporate customers.
In case you were wondering whether the Tesla and SpaceX kingpin was ever going to follow through with his bid to buy the microblogging website, sources have told The Washington Post that the deal is in âserious jeopardyâ due to those nebulous bot figures.
In light of the number of fake accounts that cannot accurately be determined, despite the great lengths Twitter has gone to provide evidence, the source told WaPo that Muskâs team is âexpected to take potentially drastic action,â though what that âdrastic actionâ may be is unknown.
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And here I was hoping that the drastic action was to emigrate to Mars.
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Paywalled but you have to love the sub head.
and:
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The comments Iâve seen from conservatives on social media mostly fall along the lines of âElon is a genius playing 12-dimensional chess and this was all just a ploy to expose the fact that Twitter is a garbage platform overrun by bot accounts.â
I mean, câmon. Most of us were already able to figure that out without exposing ourselves to a billion dollars in civil liability.
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An interesting theory:
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The theory would be bolstered if he doesnât have to pay taxes on that liquidation.
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IF he pays taxes on the liquidation â a big if â they will be offset by so many expenses, depreciation, amortization, etc. that the cost to him will be the equivalent of pennies to mere mortals.
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and also if he werenât an impulsive man baby who sometimes just does things for the lolz
he increased his wealth ( itâd be perverse to say âearnedâ ) by about 10 billion a month last year ( so says google. ) 1 billion of that is a tenth. letâs say the median income is 54k, thatâs 4,500 a month. a tenth is 450.
so slightly more than a nintendo switch, half of a ps5. and thatâs for families who donât have many lifetimes of assets in reserve already.
he wonât even notice in any sort of meaningful way. he could attempt to buy twitter every month, and fail miserably every month, and itâd never make a dent at all
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Pot, meet kettle.
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Game knows game.
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âDems should also call off the attack â donât make it so that Trumpâs only way to survive is to regain the Presidency.â
I didnât think that he could come up with something more idiotic than his twitter deal.
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You can survive off prison food
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Iâd even be willing to accommodate his special dietary needs. McDonalds 24/7.
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Letting Trump walk would show all the dictators-in-waiting that thereâs zero cost for trying, but I guess thatâs not an oligarch problem.
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Thereâs always the outside chance that he might tick off some of his own supporters that heâs radicalized towards violence.
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