Elon makes all-cash offer to take Twitter private

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Biden Administration: Hey, we need some help here, we'll throw in some military arms sales and keep the war quiet in Yemen

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This minor prince got sanctioned by the Crown Prince a few years ago.
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Typical of a politically driven DOJ and SEC.
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In reply to will25u • 11:45a, 4/14/22
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I am not seeing much on this, but if true....
Our corrupt government is going to look up his ass with a fine tooth comb.

Jackals.
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11:47a, 4/14/22
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In reply to SouthTex99 • 11:47a, 4/14/22
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The only thing I don't like is handing all these lib clowns $50B. Everything else is beautiful.
True, but I believe 80% is owned by funds of which I suspect are fund shares in personal IRA and 401k's.

ETA: nortex97 beat me to it
Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep.”
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In reply to Tom Kazansky 2012 • 11:52a, 4/14/22
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will25u said:
I am not seeing much on this, but if true....
Our corrupt government is going to look up his ass with a fine tooth comb.

Jackals.
Government: reduce our carbon footprint! go buy an electric car!

Also Government: **** this guy threatening our propaganda mouthpiece. Let's destroy his company aka the largest manufacturer of electric cars.

Yep, the swamp really cares about the climate.
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In reply to will25u • 11:55a, 4/14/22
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will25u said:
I am not seeing much on this, but if true....


Of course. This is wild. Is it too early for a Musk 2028 chant?
CNN is an enemy of the state and should be treated as such.
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In reply to texaglurkerguy • 11:56a, 4/14/22
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Are we sure this isn't an elaborate pump and dump scheme, and that all the grandstanding about the fate of free speech isn't just a sideshow to feed the hype? With Elon I could honestly see it either way.
His acquisition of shares was private knowledge until he filed his disclosure. His sale of the shares will be public the moment the board announces their rejection of the offer. The "pump" will dissolve faster than he can "dump."
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In reply to GeorgiAg • 12:00p, 4/14/22
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GeorgiAg said:
Interesting take to think about. Neuralink is Elon trying to connect the human brain to cyberspace. Interesting to think about if we could somehow be connected to a platform like twitter.

Of all of Elon's endeavors, Neuralink is the one that is the furthest out to maturity. It is harder than landing a man on Mars. Probably harder than landing on one of Jupiter's moons. It will not happen to the degree that people are worried about within Elon's or yours or my lifetime. The brain is wildly complicated.

He may cure Parkinson's. He may give amputees limbs even more functional than biological limbs. He won't be reading or writing to people's brains any time soon.
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12:01p, 4/14/22
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He is selling the shares now in the pump for profit, they reject, price falls, he buys shares again, repeats this over and over till he made all the money he needs to pay outright. What a genius
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In reply to hph6203 • 12:02p, 4/14/22
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Interesting take to think about. Neuralink is Elon trying to connect the human brain to cyberspace. Interesting to think about if we could somehow be connected to a platform like twitter.

Of all of Elon's endeavors, Neuralink is the one that is the furthest out to maturity. It is harder than landing a man on Mars. Probably harder than landing on one of Jupiter's moons. It will not happen to the degree that people are worried about within Elon's or yours or my lifetime. The brain is wildly complicated.

He may cure Parkinson's. He may give amputees limbs even more functional than biological limbs. He won't be reading or writing to people's brains any time soon.


The porn industry is usually at the tech forefront. When we see it in there, we'll know it's close.
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In reply to GeorgiAg • 12:02p, 4/14/22
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Not your call, bud
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In reply to aggie93 • 12:05p, 4/14/22
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Also, if he wins the leftists in Silicon Valley will simply launch Twitter Blue Team for the rest of the world to migrate to. And most of corporate America and all of media will jump ship to the new platform. Along with most of the rest of the planet of whom most are marxist morons. Companies are not going to spend resources supporting much more than 2-3 major platforms. It's similar to the mobile OS app wars in that regard.

Elon will be left with Parlor 2.0. It will fail over time.
Will never work. They could never build the brand Twitter has and gain credibility. It's like CNN+, just not that many hard core libs when the rubber meets the road. Musk would also give Twitter an edge and make it cool and fun again. I've jumped back on after more than a year of being off personally.
We may get to see. It could be that Twitter has so much first mover advantage that it can't be overcome, but if Elon succeeds here I can't imagine someone won't try it.

It would be glorious if this was Air America and CNN+ all over again.
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In reply to GeorgiAg • 12:08p, 4/14/22
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Have a friend who is a highly regarded neurologist. I troll him every time Neuralink goes viral by telling him that he should go join Neuralink and help change the world. He gets irritated and calls Musk a jackass that has no understanding of how difficult what he's trying to do is. It's enjoyable.


Elon is scheduled to be interviewed at TED today.
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In reply to GeorgiAg • 12:10p, 4/14/22
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GeorgiAg said:
Interesting take to think about. Neuralink is Elon trying to connect the human brain to cyberspace. Interesting to think about if we could somehow be connected to a platform like twitter.

Of all of Elon's endeavors, Neuralink is the one that is the furthest out to maturity. It is harder than landing a man on Mars. Probably harder than landing on one of Jupiter's moons. It will not happen to the degree that people are worried about within Elon's or yours or my lifetime. The brain is wildly complicated.

He may cure Parkinson's. He may give amputees limbs even more functional than biological limbs. He won't be reading or writing to people's brains any time soon.


The porn industry is usually at the tech forefront. When we see it in there, we'll know it's close.


Well when YOU finally see it, please send me a link so I know never to go there.
CNN is an enemy of the state and should be treated as such.
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12:17p, 4/14/22
Seems like Vanguard thinks Musk will succeed.

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GeorgiAg said:
hph6203 said:
GeorgiAg said:
Interesting take to think about. Neuralink is Elon trying to connect the human brain to cyberspace. Interesting to think about if we could somehow be connected to a platform like twitter.

Of all of Elon's endeavors, Neuralink is the one that is the furthest out to maturity. It is harder than landing a man on Mars. Probably harder than landing on one of Jupiter's moons. It will not happen to the degree that people are worried about within Elon's or yours or my lifetime. The brain is wildly complicated.

He may cure Parkinson's. He may give amputees limbs even more functional than biological limbs. He won't be reading or writing to people's brains any time soon.


The porn industry is usually at the tech forefront. When we see it in there, we'll know it's close.


Well when YOU finally see it, please send me a link so I know never to go there.


Depends on how good it is. Y'all may never hear from me again.
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Have a friend who is a highly regarded neurologist. I troll him every time Neuralink goes viral by telling him that he should go join Neuralink and help change the world. He gets irritated and calls Musk a jackass that has no understanding of how difficult what he's trying to do is. It's enjoyable.


Elon is scheduled to be interviewed at TED today.
Pre-recorded interview has started. Elon live coming up next.
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In reply to GeorgiAg • 12:21p, 4/14/22
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BenFiasco14 said:
GeorgiAg said:
hph6203 said:
GeorgiAg said:
Interesting take to think about. Neuralink is Elon trying to connect the human brain to cyberspace. Interesting to think about if we could somehow be connected to a platform like twitter.

Of all of Elon's endeavors, Neuralink is the one that is the furthest out to maturity. It is harder than landing a man on Mars. Probably harder than landing on one of Jupiter's moons. It will not happen to the degree that people are worried about within Elon's or yours or my lifetime. The brain is wildly complicated.

He may cure Parkinson's. He may give amputees limbs even more functional than biological limbs. He won't be reading or writing to people's brains any time soon.


The porn industry is usually at the tech forefront. When we see it in there, we'll know it's close.


Well when YOU finally see it, please send me a link so I know never to go there.


Depends on how good it is. Y'all may never hear from me again.
Marriage rates will plummet lol.
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12:26p, 4/14/22
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TED reporter: You don't necessarily want to pay out $41B in cash, you want to bring some shareholders with you.

Elon: Well technically I could afford it.
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TED reporter: So you can't incite violence on Twitter if you acquire it, right?

LOL, leftists get away with inciting violence on Twitter literally every second as it is. And I'm not talking about bots.
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In reply to GeorgiAg • 12:31p, 4/14/22
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Interesting take to think about. Neuralink is Elon trying to connect the human brain to cyberspace. Interesting to think about if we could somehow be connected to a platform like twitter.



South Park already did it



(Obviously NSFW)
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Typical of a politically driven DOJ and SEC.


This should scare the crap out of everyone.

This is how this novel ends. Some republican effectively takes over one department of the Federal government, and the beaurocracies turn into weapons of war on both sides.

There is no reason why conservatives couldn't take over something that has a ton of power but is under the radar. EPA could turn with enough work. So could FERC. Department of Treasury could be a nightmare. So could the FTC.

You don't need to drain the swamp, you just need to weaponize one important part of government to wreck house.

With 2 years of all three branches of government, and strategic focus, you could do a lot.
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12:44p, 4/14/22
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70% of this TED crowd is terrified.
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One thing I haven't figured out is what changes could be made that would make the company profitable? If the response is "more free speech, and stop silencing the right," I'm not sure that argument holds water, as the growth hasn't really changed from before they started banning people on the right to what it is now.

There's Instragram millionaires, YouTube millionaires, Facebook millionaires. Where are the Twitter millionaires?


Individuals can't monetize on Twitter. That needs to change. Give me a way to make money from my 50million followers and take a cut.

And that's just the easiest one.

You also need to be able to target ads / promoted tweets much better. Let me decide who I want to see my promoted tweets. To do this well, they probably need more cross platform intelligence, which they should be able to get. I want, for example, people that posted my tweet on Facebook with whatever data you can grab from Facebook from an incoming link. The advanced ad targeting on Twitter is just freaking terrible.
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12:52p, 4/14/22
Elon Musk: "My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization. I don't care about the economics at all."
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Elon Musk: (Tesla)Funding was indeed secured.... Why do I not have respect for the SEC in that situation. That's because the SEC knew that funding was secured, but they pursued an active public investigation. At the time Tesla was in a precarious financial situation and I was told by the banks that if I did not settle with the SEC, the banks would cease providing working capital and Tesla would go bankrupt immediately. So that's like having a gun to your child's head. So I was forced to concede to the SEC unlawfully. Those *******s. And now it makes me look like I lied when I infact did not lie. I was forced to admit that I lied to save Tesla's life, and that is the only reason.
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Perjury charges incoming.
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1:08p, 4/14/22
Elon says there is a Plan B if the offer is not accepted. Will not go into details.
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Morgan Stanley will provide "debt financing" for the poison pill? Leverage the hell out of the company? Sounding more and more like RJR Nabisco.
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