Elon makes all-cash offer to take Twitter private

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11:06a, 5/6/22
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Fair enough - I guess just different but adjacent views on the same issue

Leftists love to redefine terms and labels to fit their narratives and manipulate casual consumers of discourse.

It's sounds like you reject their terms outright. My strategy is to stop placing any weight or power behind those labels. For example - if they want to say as a parent standing up against groomers and race baiters makes me a "domestic terrorist" then sign me the **** up.

By their new labels my highschooler (who is black) is quite the white supremest, because he's a huge proponent of self reliance, capitalism and other traditional western values.
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In reply to will25u • 11:08a, 5/6/22
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will25u said:
From Grimes to Sky Ferreira? Lana Del Rey next?
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In reply to Tanya 93 • 11:20a, 5/6/22
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Lonestar_Ag09 said:
I thought he was married and had kids, the youngest with some super weird name
Not married
Has like 7 kids
i think he was married, divorced, married, divorced, married wife 2 again, divorced, was with Heard, and then Grimes.

billionaire playboy is fairly right.
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In reply to tysker • 11:22a, 5/6/22
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tysker said:
will25u said:
From Grimes to Sky Ferreira? Lana Del Rey Lizzy Grant next?
"And liberals, being liberals, will double down on failure." - dedgod
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In reply to . . . • 11:54a, 5/7/22
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. . . said:



Slash reliance on ad income, then quintuple revenue selling what?
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In reply to WHOOP!'91 • 12:04p, 5/7/22
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WHOOP!'91 said:
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Slash reliance on ad income, then quintuple revenue selling what?


Well he's talking about improving current add revenue by almost 3x what it currently is so that's its 12.5 billion of revenue and then selling "Twitter blue" for $3/month at 70 million users which would be another 2.5 billion. I'm not sure where the other $10 billion is coming from.

Found it in the article

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By 2028, he plans for ads to generate $12 billion in revenue in 2028, while subscriptions are expected to pull in another $10 billion, according to the report.

Musk is said to favor a subscription-based model over advertiser funding, as it would make Twitter less beholden to advertiser pressure. He has even suggested users could pay with cryptocurrency, including joke currency Dogecoin which Musk has long had an affection for.

Other revenue would come from businesses such as data licensing.

Musk has also tweeted about potentially monetizing tweets, although he has not provided specific details.

Musk also plans to see Twitter's cash flow rise to $3.2 billion in 2025 and $9.4 billion in 2028.
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In reply to RikkiTikkaTagem • 12:10p, 5/7/22
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Data licensing was one aspect of the remaining revenue, the other was a payments platform.

A financial analyst I follow proposes that the data licensing will be more like an AI analysis of the language interactions used between individuals so that you can interact with robots, similar to what OpenAI has done with GPT-3, but that's wild speculation.
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12:13p, 5/7/22
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Making those smug blue checks pay for the privilege is a great idea.
Trump will fix it.
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In reply to techno-ag • 12:40p, 5/7/22
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His proposal is to have two indicators, one for Twittter Blue (the pay service) and one for public figures. The Blue service is going to operate as a way to reduce the number of bots or at least call into question their sincerity. You pay $2/mo and people are less likely to presume you're a bot and more likely to presume it if you don't.

He's going to have to provide other added value to make Blue work, but I don't doubt he can. Some possibilities would be implementing a cloud storage service into the system or some other cheap to implement add on.


It's kind of like the Ag Tag and stars on this site. The stars buy you a level of credibility, but the Ag Tag confirms you're a former student. Stars = Blue, Ag Tag = verified.
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In reply to hph6203 • 2:49p, 5/7/22
Makes me wonder... if Brandon doesn't figure out the moderation on this site and Twitter adds AgTags...
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7:53p, 5/8/22
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In reply to hph6203 • 5:33a, 5/9/22
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the stars buy you a level of credibility


Thanks foe the morning chuckle.

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In reply to hph6203 • 5:55a, 5/9/22
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The stars buy you a level of credibility

No. Just like the Swiss Flags do not indicate informed medical knowledge expertise.

but the Ag Tag confirms you're a former student

There are a few exceptions to those assigned Ag Tags, so again no.
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In reply to BMX Bandit • 7:08a, 5/9/22
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the stars buy you a level of credibility


Thanks foe the morning chuckle.



Never knew BMX is black.
"The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution was never designed to restrain the people. It was designed to restrain the government."
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In reply to BigRobSA • 7:10a, 5/9/22
BigRobSA said:
BMX Bandit said:
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the stars buy you a level of credibility


Thanks foe the morning chuckle.



Never knew BMX is black.


I don't know about that, but he is arrogant and often wrong.
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In reply to C@LAg • 8:03a, 5/9/22
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C@LAg said:
hph6203 said:

The stars buy you a level of credibility

No. Just like the Swiss Flags do not indicate informed medical knowledge expertise.

but the Ag Tag confirms you're a former student

There are a few exceptions to those assigned Ag Tags, so again no.
non-former students have an ag tag? I know there is an Aggie spirit tag...
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In reply to BMX Bandit • 8:08a, 5/9/22
BMX Bandit said:
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the stars buy you a level of credibility


Thanks foe the morning chuckle.


Yeah, that's hilarious!
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In reply to petroleo y agua • 8:41a, 5/9/22
petroleo y agua said:
BigRobSA said:
BMX Bandit said:
Quote:
the stars buy you a level of credibility


Thanks foe the morning chuckle.



Never knew BMX is black.


I don't know about that, but he is arrogant and often wrong.
deep breaths. it will be okay.

sorry you had to change your user name. that "Biden won't be inaugurated" thing didn't work out so well for you. Maybe those Q drops were planted by an imposter.
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In reply to BigRobSA • 8:42a, 5/9/22
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In reply to BMX Bandit • 4:05p, 5/9/22
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BMX Bandit said:
petroleo y agua said:
BigRobSA said:
BMX Bandit said:
Quote:
the stars buy you a level of credibility


Thanks foe the morning chuckle.



Never knew BMX is black.


I don't know about that, but he is arrogant and often wrong.
deep breaths. it will be okay.

sorry you had to change your user name. that "Biden won't be inaugurated" thing didn't work out so well for you. Maybe those Q drops were planted by an imposter.


What was the previous username?
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In reply to WHOOP!'91 • 5:07p, 5/9/22
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C@LAg said:
hph6203 said:

The stars buy you a level of credibility
No. Just like the Swiss Flags do not indicate informed medical knowledge expertise.
but the Ag Tag confirms you're a former student
There are a few exceptions to those assigned Ag Tags, so again no.
non-former students have an ag tag? I know there is an Aggie spirit tag...

Non-Ags use their Aggie wives or relatives credentials to get an Ag Tag then troll the football board, especially one UTSA roadrunner grad
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In reply to GeorgiAg • 7:23a, 5/10/22
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GeorgiAg said:
Let those companies leave Twitter. No one will follow.

What is so funny is that the strategy of the Tech Sector was:

1) Build a platform that caters to all people, make it really convenient. Amass a huge user base.
2) Make the platform less convenient so that you can sell your user base. Make lots of money. Users don't leave because of network effects (the phenomenon that people want social media platforms with the largest user interface).
3) Force liberal policies on the user base to try and move the country left. A few people leave, but most non-political people still stick around for network effects.

Now that Musk is buying Twitter, there really is nothing that they can do. Tech has been using those network effects as a cudgel to do pretty much whatever they want. The reason they are scared is because they know most people are not going to leave Twitter. Twitter / Tech has been abusing their user base for years, and still doing fine. The lefties haven't been on the other side of the coin, where there really is nothing they can do to combat those network effects.
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In reply to will25u • 7:29a, 5/10/22
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will25u said:
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On Thursday, Daniel Zhao, a senior economist and data scientist at the job insights platform Glassdoor, tweeted that interest in job openings at the social media giant was up 263% between April 24 and April 30.


Well, one way to change the culture of a company is 80% or so turnover.
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In reply to WHOOP!'91 • 7:32a, 5/10/22
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WHOOP!'91 said:
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Slash reliance on ad income, then quintuple revenue selling what?
User data.

How do you think Tesla makes any money at all? It's not from selling cars. It's from selling the data of where those cars go on a daily basis.
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In reply to BusterAg • 7:38a, 5/10/22
That's interesting. Did that come from an earnings call or sec filing? I'd like to see that breakdown of revenue.
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In reply to hph6203 • 7:38a, 5/10/22
LOL! Is this a joke???
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8:01a, 5/10/22
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Well there you have it, black_ice thinks Musk's plans are a joke. He may as well give it up now...
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8:37a, 5/10/22
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I think most in the mainstream investor community are totally missing the boat on what's about to happen with Twitter. To be honest, Elon's lightning rod polarity and mainstream's focus on the speech/censorship aspect of this are perfect cover for the brains behind the scenes to execute quietly.

I don't know what the stock is going to do between now and when it goes private, but if I could somehow get on his list of private investors, I would put every penny I have in it.
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In reply to Proc92 • 8:50a, 5/10/22
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They report "services" revenue which is close to or exceeds their net income.

It's easy to hide these things in financial statements. When you have a thin margin on your primary source of business, small, very lucrative, sources of revenue tend to contribute a whole lot more to net income than your primary source of business.
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8:57a, 5/10/22
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FWIW, revenue from user data won't be much of a factor with the new Twitter
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In reply to black_ice • 10:15a, 5/10/22
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black_ice said:
LOL! Is this a joke???
No. it may not function that way on this cesspool of cynicism. And I'm not saying it gives more validity to an opinion, but rather it gives more legitimacy that they are a person rather than a computer algorithm.

A blue check does not make Alyssa Milano intelligent, but you know that it's Alyssa Milano saying the stupid **** she does rather than an impersonator. A Twitter Blue indicator doesn't make a person right, it just reduces the likelihood that they're just a bot sewing dissent.

An Ag Tag does not make a person smart, but it legitimizes their relationship to the university, stars don't make a person smart, but it does mean that they have enough of an investment into their profile here that they're willing to pay for it.

It is not credibility of intelligence, but rather credibility as a person that merely exists. It's a way, way bigger problem on Twitter than it is on this small website, so that kind of information has way more value on Twitter than it does here.
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In reply to hph6203 • 10:21a, 5/10/22
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Right. I assume, as most people should, that almost all tweets are made by bots. Certainly any tweet that is something by someone with a username like patriot385828285 is almost certainly a bot. Yet things like that get posted on this board ALL THE TIME.
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In reply to hph6203 • 10:21a, 5/10/22
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Barnes had stars.
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