Moonrise2473Jul 24, 2023

The value of his purchase of all that billions was essentially:

  • The userbase

  • The branding

  • The software and the people that built it

    • Now that got rid of all three… Wasn’t it 100x cheaper to just buy parler? Or just hire a single developer on Fiverr and start a defederated mastodon server

    Show threadfloofloofJul 24, 2023
    Either he’s a raving idiot or someone was paying him to destroy Twitter. Or both.
    Show threadprimalanimist
    I doubt anyone could pay the man enough to blow 40 billion to tank a website. The moment you break something, the users will find a replacement and go there. This purchase was 100% ego. It changed no minds about Elon. His fanboys will still call this genius, and those who already knew he was a manchild are not suddenly thinking this was a mature, well-thought-out plan.
    Jul 24, 2023 at 1:32pmWeb
    Show threadbobs_monkeyJul 24, 2023
    We seem to forget this whole “Imma buy Twitter” was, in part, because Twitter refused to disable the account of the kid that was tracking his jet
    Show threadNaNJul 24, 2023
    Who is still tracking his jet on mastodon and threads. I love it.
    Show threadThrashyJul 24, 2023

    the kid that was tracking his jet

    The kid that was reposting public flight tracking data of his jet. He’s so fucking petty.