“Fidelity is currently valuing X at about $9.4 billion”

I found this funny.

  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    137
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    3 months ago

    Musk did not buy this as an investment. He bought it to flip elections and manipulate public opinion.

    Tesla is writing him a check that will cover the entire purchase price, and Saudi Arabia and Russia will pay the operating costs.

    Active users are what matters; if they lost 75% of their users then I’m paying attention.

    • deathbird@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      ·
      3 months ago

      I think you’re giving the guy too much credit. Sometimes things are as they seen. He just didn’t like the moderation scheme on Twitter, made a gesture buying it, fumbled a little bit and overbid, then after having been forced to acquire it tried to turn it into something closer to what he wanted it to be.

    • scarabic@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      3 months ago

      I think it’s even pettier than that. He’s the loud guy on the forum who literally bought the site so he could be admin.

      • reka@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        3 months ago

        Honestly, everyone needs to listen to the episode of Search Engine about Elon. It’s such a clear narrative of what happened between the Iron Man cameo and now. It’s pure hubris - someone who is very unlikable desperately hungry for love to the point where his brain bust a fuse.

    • fluxion@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      3 months ago

      We’ll never know since Musk is nurturing a state-funded “user”-base that will always keep their numbers inflated