Spending $44bn to shut it down seems like a worthwhile endeavour to me.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 5 Nov 2022, 10:31,
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If it's losing money at that rate, makes you wonder why he even wanted it.
Perhaps the board lied about the accounts, as well as the quantity of spambots.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sat 5 Nov 2022, 11:44,
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He didn't.
He bullshitted his way into it. Serves him right. No online business that doesn't actually trade, sell, or produce anything, is worth billions of dollars.
I hear there are adverts on Twitter (none has ever made it past my adblockers), but nobody is getting rich on internet advertising revenue of pennies per thousand clicks.
So that leaves exploiting the users by charging them for stuff that's been standard and free until now, like blue ticks and ...having arguments. Cue mass user exodus.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 5 Nov 2022, 13:54,
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> nobody is getting rich on internet advertising revenue of pennies per thousand clicks.
Google, Microsoft, and Facebook would very much disagree with you there
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 5 Nov 2022, 14:35,
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I... Have no counter argument. You're right.
However, since Musk took over some of Twitter's biggest advertisers have pulled out. When he starts charging for blue ticks and debates the user base will probably shrink, further diminishing the value of the advertising space.
I guess the goal is to make Twitter more profitable on paper through hotshotting before turning it public, cashing in, and rapidly cashing out. I hope it's a miserable failure.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 5 Nov 2022, 15:37,
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There's a big difference between big corps spending on online ads
and those ads making money. I'm 100% prepared to believe that all the marketers know it has negligible value but it's their job to sell advertising (as a strategy) to their bosses as much as it is to sell adverts.
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simbosan is too tired, Sat 5 Nov 2022, 21:19,
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They're not spending on ads. They're selling the ads. Google is the largest ad broker in the world.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 7 Nov 2022, 21:03,
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As far as I'm aware,
it started when someone joked that he should buy Twitter.
He basically did it "for the bants", didn't he? *cringes*
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 5 Nov 2022, 15:21,
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He's a childish narcissistic twat who likes the attention, any attention.
Borderline racist and homophobic retweets endearing him to the Trumpf shitcircus stirrers.
Can't say I'm keen on him.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 5 Nov 2022, 16:47,
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He builds good rockets, has some lofty goals to save the planet, but his politics are bafflingly stupid.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 5 Nov 2022, 20:37,
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Being very competent in one area doesn't guarantee wisdom or empathy.
I think a lot of the politics is shit stirring for the lols mixed with being a 'maverick'.
PS I doubt he builds the rockets on his own, it would take ages.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 5 Nov 2022, 21:57,
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He didn't though
He hired the people to do it. Having some ideas doesn't make you a fucking genius just because you can throw money at it. Even still, being successful in one arena doesn't suddenly make you capable in all others by default
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sun 6 Nov 2022, 22:44,
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Weird how nobody else did it before him, given how much talent and money the space launch industry had at their disposal. (Pun intended.)
He does though. Of course he has employed rocket engineers, technicians, computer programmers, etc., because he runs a company that designs, builds and launches reusable rockets.
Someone can be a twat, a billionaire, AND a successful rocket surgeon. Acknowledging his positives doesn't take away from the negatives.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 7 Nov 2022, 19:32,
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"He's a childish narcissistic twat who likes the attention, any attention."
Isn’t that a good working definition of any Twitter user?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 5 Nov 2022, 21:10,
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Pretty much any media platform they can get rewarded on.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 5 Nov 2022, 21:40,
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All those staff whose lives he's ruined, or will do shortly by crashing the company,
it doesn't matter because they are just things put there for his amusement. What an utter cunt he is.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sat 5 Nov 2022, 20:09,
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