They would’ve had to convince Musk though to take a huge hit to his credibility and ego with this, which I can’t see him agreeing to.
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dangblingus@lemmy.world 1 year agoSaudi Arabia put up 20 billion or so of the 44 he used to purchase twitter. The reason behind this is widely speculated to be Saudi Arabia wanting to destroy twitter because it was instrumental in the Arab Spring uprising.
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
oneofthemladygoats@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
They didn’t put new money into the purchase, they rolled their pre-existing shares over. Dorsey did the same FYI.
Y’all are giving this idiot waaaay too much credit when it comes to scheming behind the scenes. It was a really poorly thought out pump and dump, nothing more. There’s no big evil master plan; he’s just really that stupid, and rich enough to constantly fail upwards. With Xitter we’re just seeing his xitty ideas in their purest form, without the influence of the handlers he has to manage his bullxit at his other companies.
Although I have to say, the accidental brilliance of going with branding that’s so phonologically flexible is pretty fantastic, the jokes can write themselves now. But I doubt advertisers are going to appreciate the fact that their interactions on Xitter are colloquially becoming known as xcrements now…