Twitter, anybody?

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Seems like there's enough happening on Twitter to devote a thread to it. And this looked like a good one to use instead of creating a new one.

Here are some posts from other random threads about the Musk buyout, including ones posted before the buyout


Ha! He's doing it. It will be fun to watch this all shake out.

Elon Musk tries to buy Twitter for $41billion​

The Companies Market Cap website values Twitter at $36.7 billion as of April 13, 2022. The avereage valuation for the month of April is $34.49 billion. Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter for $43 billion in cash. I thought he said he was "smart" and a "shrewd businessman." Oh, wait. No, I'm thinking of somebody else.

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Twitter (TWTR) - Market capitalization

As of June 2024 Twitter has a market cap of $41.09 Billion. This makes Twitter the world's 462th most valuable company according to our data.
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The old expression is true: "Money talks."

www.cnn.com

Elon Musk to buy Twitter in $44 billion deal | CNN Business

Twitter said Monday it has agreed to sell itself to Elon Musk in a roughly $44 billion deal that has the potential to expand the billionaire's business empire and put the world's richest man in charge of one of the world's most influential social networks.
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The world's richest person is considering imposing a fee on certain Twitter users.

www.cnbc.com

Elon Musk says businesses and governments may have to pay to use Twitter

Casual users will continue to be able to use the social media platform for free, the tech billionaire said.
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A rival multi-billionaire speaks up: Bill Gates says Elon Musk could make Twitter 'worse' – but that people should never underestimate him

www.businessinsider.com

Bill Gates says Elon Musk could make Twitter 'worse' — but that people should never underestimate him

Bill Gates expressed concern over how Elon Musk would address misinformation on the social media platform.
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Musk says Twitter lied about the percentage of its users that are bots and therefore he can tear up the merger agreement. Twitter claims Musk is obligated to buy the company. Kathaleen McCormick, chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, will decide who prevails. Shares of Twitter closed today at 36.81, a loss of 1.93 (4.98%).

www.reuters.com

Twitter vows legal fight after Musk pulls out of $44 billion deal

Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world's richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.
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This might be the last and final "Twitter executive to-do list" item...

Monday: Buy a Tesla
Tuesday: Explain to media why owner said he used to be an alien
Wednesday: Pay $20M fee to SEC over another 'funding secured' joke
Thursday: Explain to media what a cyborg dragon is
Friday: Colonize Mars
Saturday: Explain to media that re-adding cocaine to Coca Cola was sarcasm
Sunday: Confirm Elon put deal on hold to look into spam accounts, not because Tesla stock fell
Monday: Fire two top execs.
Tuesday: Damage control on Musk calling Hard Drive 'woke' after reposting their articles without giving credit.
Wednesday: Explain to media how Musk supporting DeSantis doesn't mean he doesn't support transgender people.

Thursday: Lay self off

Forbes estimates Elon Musk's net worth at $200 billion. It fell by $9 billion after he purchased Twitter. The wealthiest person in the United States is in the process of ensuring that 3,700 employees will be out of a job.

www.huffpost.com

Elon Musk Begins Mass Layoffs At Twitter

Half of the company's employees could see their jobs eliminated.
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Kathy Griffin suspended from Twitter for impersonating Elon Musk

 
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Now adding to the conversation:

"This guy is alone," Sacca tweeted. "He has plenty of 'pals' and is the life of parties and dinners. But the hard truth is that he is straight-up alone right now and winging this." Musk has made his decisions about Twitter in what's been dubbed his "war room," surrounded by advisors including his personal lawyer Alex Spiro, tech investor Jason Calacanis, and venture capitalist David Sacks. "One of the biggest risks of wealth/power is no longer having anyone around you who can push back, give candid feedback, suggest alternatives, or just simply let you know you're wrong," Sacca tweeted. Speaking about Musk, Sacca said: "I've recently watched those around him become increasingly sycophantic and opportunistic. Simply put, agreeing with him is easier, and there is more financial & social upside." "We all need people around us to push back," he continued. "To say no. To call bullshit."

www.businessinsider.com

An early Twitter investor says Elon Musk is 'straight-up alone' and 'winging' his rapid changes

Chris Sacca criticized Musk's "move fast and alone" approach to Twitter and said he needed to surround himself with people "to push back."
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As of today, November 8, Twitter has been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and its shares will no longer trade on public markets. How will we know what Twitter stock is worth? I guess we'll have to wait till Elon Musk tells us what it's worth. He will be honest with us, right?
 
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I did a search for threads with the word Twitter in it and there were more than two pages worth of them. 23 of them had 10 or less replies and then were abandoned (several had zero replies). I figured I wouldn't add another one onto the pile. I chose this one because it had no replies and I liked the thread title: "Twitter, anybody?"


Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Elon Musk took over

Estimates from Bot Sentinel suggest that more than 875,000 users deactivated their accounts between October 27 and November 1, while half a million more were suspended.

www.technologyreview.com

Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Elon Musk took over

Estimates from Bot Sentinel suggest that more than 875,000 users deactivated their accounts between October 27 and November 1, while half a million more were suspended.
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Yes, except he removed half of the car parts, is letting people create their own license plates with crayon, and every once in a while grabs the steering wheel and turns it 270 degrees without looking through the windshield first.
 
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Yes, except he removed half of the car parts, is letting people create their own license plates with crayon, and every once in a while grabs the steering wheel and turns it 270 degrees without looking through the windshield first.
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Why does he need to do that personally? I thought his driving algorithms already took care of that. They also have the catch fire subroutine built in. He doesn't personally have to go to each car with a gas can and a match.
 
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I guess Twitterpated doesn't mean the same thing in 2022 that it meant in 1942. Maybe we could coin a new word: Tweittermusked.
 
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TWITTER EXECUTIVE TO-DO LIST

Monday: Buy a Tesla
Tuesday: Explain to media why owner said he used to be an alien
Wednesday: Pay $20M fee to SEC over another 'funding secured' joke
Thursday: Explain to media what a cyborg dragon is
Friday: Colonize Mars
Saturday: Explain to media that re-adding cocaine to Coca Cola was sarcasm
Sunday: Confirm Elon put deal on hold to look into spam accounts, not because Tesla stock fell
Monday: Fire two top execs.
Tuesday: Damage control on Musk calling Hard Drive 'woke' after reposting their articles without giving credit.
Wednesday: Explain to media how Musk supporting DeSantis doesn't mean he doesn't support transgender people.
Thursday: Lay self off

Friday: For the other half, get back to the office *whipcrack*

Elon Musk has announced the end of remote working at Twitter.

Musk, who took over Twitter on October 27, sent an email to his employees Wednesday for the first time. The email was sent at 2:39 a.m. ET, according to a time stamp on the email reviewed by Insider.

The billionaire wrote in the email that employees would no longer be permitted to work remotely. He said Twitter expected staff to be in the office for at least 40 hours a week unless they're given approval to work elsewhere, which he'd review.

Musk told Twitter employees, "The road ahead is arduous and will require intense work to succeed."

Days after Musk finalized his deal with Twitter, employees noticed the company's "days of rest," implemented by the Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, had been removed from their calendars, people familiar with the matter told Insider. While Dorsey encouraged staff to avoid burnout, employees of Musk's other companies, such as SpaceX and Tesla, are known to work long hours.

www.businessinsider.com

Read the 2:30 a.m. email Elon Musk sent to staff, his first, announcing the end of remote working at Twitter

Musk sent Twitter staff an email for the first time, putting an end to remote work and saying, "The road ahead is arduous."
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Let's add this to the mess

* Elon Musk has scraped off about $92 billion of his wealth this year after purchasing Twitter

* Musk is currently being sued by multiple Twitter employees for allegedly conducting a large layoff in violation of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), which requires employers to give at least 60 days notice ahead of such a move.

* Elon Musk has discussed putting the entire site behind a paywall, Platformer has learned. Meanwhile, the company is scrambling to lure back employees who it laid off mere hours ago, and some workers say the economics behind its soon-to-relaunch Twitter Blue subscription could actually lose the company money.

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Elon Musk Loses $92 Billion Since Last Year, Considers Paywall for Twitter: Reports

Musk, the new owner of Twitter, has reportedly considered putting the entire platform behind a paywall to generate more revenue
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