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Seems like he could just start a twitter competitor that he fully owns. Then short twitter while he IPOs.

dkjaudyeqooe 4y ago
Your comment reads like Elon Musk fan fiction.
rnk 4y ago
The hate twitter crowd but want to communicate their thoughts, libertarian adjacent market segment - is already occupied by Truth Social and several other related Trumpy social networks (we allow anything except discussion around Jan 6 really happened topics).
- treeman79 4y ago
  We had parlor but Amazon shut them down to help suppress the Hunter laptop story. TruthSocial has had a rough scaling start. Imagine building a product knowing that nearly all hosting platforms and services will try and shut you down.
  - cyanydeez 4y ago
    "hunter laptop _bullshit to feed nutjobs_ story" Sorry man, tech don't care about your feelings
  - kjeetgill 4y ago
    Hm. Parler is/was hardly big enough that that taking it down somehow suppressed anyone from talking about that story anywhere else. Like a I get how one might imagine that FB + Twitter + Google together could meaningfully suppress a story from breaking by any other means. But is that the theory here? That they all colluded in that way?
    - nwienert 4y ago
      Facebook and Twitter absolutely did, immediately. Reddit and basically all of the media did too. Can’t find evidence if Google did, but given they suppress far less spicy things already + their automatic upranking of all MSM sources means de-facto they did.
      - rnk 4y ago
        What did they do to suppress it? Everyone who read anything about politics, trump etc heard about them and could find them in a second via a web search. This stuff was widely available.
  - rsynnott 4y ago
    > parlor but Amazon shut them down For something which has been shut down, it sure seems unusually... existent. Like, if you want microblogging by weird racists, it's there.
    - knewter 4y ago
      When they got shut down they had ~15M users. Now they sit under 1M
nabla9 4y ago
No. He signed the deal and secured funding. There is no way he can walk off now, no matter how confidently he says it. Twitter everyone else have every interest to make this thing go trough and they make it happen. He can sue everyone he want's from any wrongdoing but Twitter is going to be his. >The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery. https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1545526087089696768 https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1545526087089696768
rsynnott 4y ago
I can't see many people using it. Even the Donald Trump situation didn't create a viable twitter competitor, and there are a lot more people who are weirdly into Donald than are weirdly into Elon.

Your comment reads like Elon Musk fan fiction.

rnk 4y ago

The hate twitter crowd but want to communicate their thoughts, libertarian adjacent market segment - is already occupied by Truth Social and several other related Trumpy social networks (we allow anything except discussion around Jan 6 really happened topics).

treeman79 4y ago
We had parlor but Amazon shut them down to help suppress the Hunter laptop story. TruthSocial has had a rough scaling start. Imagine building a product knowing that nearly all hosting platforms and services will try and shut you down.
- cyanydeez 4y ago
  "hunter laptop _bullshit to feed nutjobs_ story" Sorry man, tech don't care about your feelings
- kjeetgill 4y ago
  Hm. Parler is/was hardly big enough that that taking it down somehow suppressed anyone from talking about that story anywhere else. Like a I get how one might imagine that FB + Twitter + Google together could meaningfully suppress a story from breaking by any other means. But is that the theory here? That they all colluded in that way?
  - nwienert 4y ago
    Facebook and Twitter absolutely did, immediately. Reddit and basically all of the media did too. Can’t find evidence if Google did, but given they suppress far less spicy things already + their automatic upranking of all MSM sources means de-facto they did.
    - rnk 4y ago
      What did they do to suppress it? Everyone who read anything about politics, trump etc heard about them and could find them in a second via a web search. This stuff was widely available.
- rsynnott 4y ago
  > parlor but Amazon shut them down For something which has been shut down, it sure seems unusually... existent. Like, if you want microblogging by weird racists, it's there.
  - knewter 4y ago
    When they got shut down they had ~15M users. Now they sit under 1M

nabla9 4y ago

No. He signed the deal and secured funding. There is no way he can walk off now, no matter how confidently he says it. Twitter everyone else have every interest to make this thing go trough and they make it happen. He can sue everyone he want's from any wrongdoing but Twitter is going to be his. >The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery. https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1545526087089696768 https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1545526087089696768

rsynnott 4y ago

I can't see many people using it. Even the Donald Trump situation didn't create a viable twitter competitor, and there are a lot more people who are weirdly into Donald than are weirdly into Elon.