Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave

Beaver@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d love to see it fail completely. I’m hoping that musk makes it a site that you have to pay a subscription to see anything at all on there so everyone can finally give up on it.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You saw the investor list, right? There’s a LOT of people on there who miiiiight not consider direct financial profitability to be the point of their investment.

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    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Top shareholders of Twitter include:

      1. Elon Musk (owns 78.7% of the company)
      2. Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal (5.7%)
      3. Oracle’s founder Larry Ellison (3.0%)

      WTF they really need to relocate the evil lair in a volcano

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There’s also a bunch of Russian connections too

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    • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s true, but I’d imagine running a site like twitter actively costs money. If advertisers aren’t paying, who is? Do they go to their investors and ask for money? For how long could Elon afford to run Twitter with all of its development costs?

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  • Beaver@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hopefully he beats Spez

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    • Bakersfield@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It would be hilarious to see Musk beat up spez.

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  • shiftymccool@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it would awesome if it failed so much, Musk was forced to sell. Then, it explodes in popularity

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That would be incredible.

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    • Kalysta@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Day one it would be the most popular site on the internet.

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re walking right into new TX regs for social media. I’m already off the platform but any platform that stops me to upload my driver’s license then I’m done with it.

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then I guess all the Nazis will go back to stormfront.

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• darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Going to be?

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What benefit does musk get from killing twitter? He’s getting something out of it.

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  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    After the string of bad decisions he’s already made with this company, what makes you think he’s able to make good choices now? He has an echo-chamber where nobody can tell him to GTFO and that’s literally the only thing he’s ever getting out of it. It’s kinda like if someone paid an obscene amount of money for a junker car, then paid 10x that amount to put vanity plates on it.

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  • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, controlling the town square. It’s worth him sinking money into it if he can get favorable tax laws passed as a result.

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  • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Election interference all over the world is a great value for his russian, chinese and arabian masters

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