Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may soon go through

[Absent]

external funding is required

Yes, but I'm pessimistic about it. I believe he''ll get the funding. Trump-like self-aggrandizing jerks easily attract money and Musk has this aura of big multi-entrepreneur (SpaceX and Tesla look shiny). Plus he's an absolute asshole, which attracts even more money, for ideological reasons (the same historical ones as always).

 

[bluegate]

Either that, or he figured the website's gonna go down in flames, and if it does he might as well satisfy his vanity.

Would a vane person attach his dream to a sinking ship only to see it sink?

 

[Ag3ma]

Yes, but I'm pessimistic about it. I believe he''ll get the funding. Trump-like self-aggrandizing jerks easily attract money and Musk has this aura of big multi-entrepreneur (SpaceX and Tesla look shiny). Plus he's an absolute asshole, which attracts even more money, for ideological reasons (the same historical ones as always).

Yes, he may well do - but at least he may struggle to get the money if many institutional investors view him as unreliable.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

And people to trust the thing not to be a horrible shambles. Though, he's still got some cultists, I guess.

Fucking THIS.

Musk broke something as simple as Twitter's 2 factor authentication and caused people to get locked out of their accounts. Is anyone actually going to trust a platform like that with their financial transactions?

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Musk broke something as simple as Twitter's 2 factor authentication and caused people to get locked out of their accounts. Is anyone actually going to trust a platform like that with their financial transactions?

Moreover, why would I want someone who thinks himself above such petty things as government regulations to have my financial information?

 

[Thaluikhain]

Would a vane person attach his dream to a sinking ship only to see it sink?

Cause he believes he can magically stop it from sinking?

Fucking THIS.

Musk broke something as simple as Twitter's 2 factor authentication and caused people to get locked out of their accounts. Is anyone actually going to trust a platform like that with their financial transactions?

People still support Trump, so...

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

He's gonna keep coming up with excuses while also posturing forever

 

[Asita]

He's gonna keep coming up with excuses while also posturing forever

Meanwhile, I can't help but see this as reeking of Musk having a midlife crisis and desperately trying to deny the fact that he's 52.

 

[Seanchaidh]

Would a vane person attach his dream to a sinking ship only to see it sink?

a narcissist like Elon will probably think he's helping. against all reason.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

People still support Trump, so...

Yes, but how many of them are willing to give him direct access to their bank accounts? I mean, I'm sure it's significantly more than 0, but I'm also pretty sure that the majority of people who support Trump understand that he's a shyster. He's just a shyster they like. There's a difference between giving someone a couple of dollars as a contribution and giving them access to your banking details.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

He's gonna keep coming up with excuses while also posturing forever

Mark Zuckerberg is going to kill Elon Musk if this fight actually happens. He's younger, he's fitter, and he actually trains in Brazlian Jiu Jitsu. Elon is old, fat, and slow.

The best case scenario here is if Elon Musk passes out from exhaustion 2 minutes in, falls on Zuckerberg and smothers him to death with his man-tits.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Yes, but how many of them are willing to give him direct access to their bank accounts? I mean, I'm sure it's significantly more than 0, but I'm also pretty sure that the majority of people who support Trump understand that he's a shyster. He's just a shyster they like. There's a difference between giving someone a couple of dollars as a contribution and giving them access to your banking details.

Well, wanting Trump to lead the country is a bit extreme as well, but yeah, hope you're right.

 

[Baffle]

The best case scenario here is if Elon Musk passes out from exhaustion 2 minutes in, falls on Zuckerberg and smothers him to death with his man-tits.

I can think of

He's gonna keep coming up with excuses while also posturing forever

They're telling us that the richest man in the world (or whatever rank he is now) hurt his back years ago and is just getting round to an MRI now?

 

[Ag3ma]

They're telling us that the richest man in the world (or whatever rank he is now) hurt his back years ago and is just getting round to an MRI now?

Steve Jobs thought that vitamins might cure his cancer, so why not?

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

They're telling us that the richest man in the world (or whatever rank he is now) hurt his back years ago and is just getting round to an MRI now?

He's not gonna admit he blew out a disk while trying to suck his own dick.

 

[Satinavian]

For what I had gathered, these are no joke. Musk intends to use twitter as a backbone for something different, bigger, allowing more types of data exchange, integrating an AI, facilitating the monetization of anything, and leaning/influencing to the (societal and financial) extreme-right. A global platform distinct from twitter, modelled around the Chinese wechat, and so with its own name, part of a network of Musk-owned companies all named "x something" (such as x.ai, his artificial intelligence company).

It isn't erratic.

It's nonsense.

He more than halved the development team, got the whole world to know of atrocious working conditions, insists that Twitter pays a huge debt in addition to running cost from basically also halved income and wants to make an app ten times more ambitious than twitter ever has been ?

It won't ever happen. He might get some idiots to throw money at his vision but not even that will make it work.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

He's gonna keep coming up with excuses while also posturing forever

"I can't fight him that day; I've got a massage appointment with my girlfriend. She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her."

 

[Ag3ma]

It's nonsense.

He more than halved the development team, got the whole world to know of atrocious working conditions, insists that Twitter pays a huge debt in addition to running cost from basically also halved income and wants to make an app ten times more ambitious than twitter ever has been ?

It won't ever happen. He might get some idiots to throw money at his vision but not even that will make it work.

Not necessarily.

Twitter is now a subdivision of a wider holding group: this holding group will be running a lot of these other operations as separate companies. Presumably these companies will have access to Twitter code (as Twitter code will presumably be the base to work from), but largely be independent. Plus, of course, presumably Musk can bolster Twitter's bottom line by having these other companies pay Twitter for code access, paid out of their independent budgets and so essentially paid for by investors.

Also, at least in theory, Twitter can collapse and be shut down, and all these other companies can keep going - although any work they might be doing towards a fully integrated "WeChat" style platform might be hard to justify to investors without Twitter still going.

 

[Ag3ma]

Mark Zuckerberg is going to kill Elon Musk if this fight actually happens. He's younger, he's fitter, and he actually trains in Brazlian Jiu Jitsu. Elon is old, fat, and slow.

I just wonder what's wrong with these nerd/business types that they have some macho fantasy that they could also take on Oleksandr Usyk in a fight. Isn't being CEO and largest shareholder of a $500+ billion company enough?

 

[Thaluikhain]

I just wonder what's wrong with these nerd/business types that they have some macho fantasy that they could also take on Oleksandr Usyk in a fight. Isn't being CEO and largest shareholder of a $500+ billion company enough?

I think to get anywhere near that level they can't have a concept of "enough".