• potpie
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      17711 months ago

      Pay billions for a userbase, then drive away the ones that aren’t Nazis or bots.

      • @[email protected]
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        1611 months ago

        Been saying it for a while, but his plan was to run it into the ground all along. Who is he buddy-buddy with in public? The Saudi’s and the Russians, who both have an interest in seeing Twitter burn to the ground. He started by laying off people, not paying their bills, and making stupid brand decisions. This has been the plan all along and there’s really no other logical explanation. 44 billion is nothing to the Saudis and Russian oligarchs if it takes away a key tool for organized dissent and the spread of western ideals.

        • TwilightVulpine
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          1011 months ago

          Don’t give him too much credit. Elon is transparently too terminally online to be destroying Twitter because that’s his goal. He didn’t even actually mean to buy it until he was forced to.

        • Azzy
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          911 months ago

          Sell the servers on eBay to the homelabbers lmao

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months ago

      Pay 54 billion dollars to utterly destroy a platform which gave normal people the ability to effectively spread information about the wrongdoing of the upper class, and which often promoted that very information.

      That’s why he did this, he knows it’s killing g Twitter and wants it dead.