mastermindRIP Twitter’s iconic bird logo
katy ✨Twitter gets their iconic branding enshrined in the dictionary as a verb - one of the very few companies that have achieved the feat - and Elon chucks it all in the bin.
Genious.
He found the fastest way to burn 44B$, me reckons.
dismalnowI got curious and did the math if $44B was denominated in $100 bills.
That's 496.85 cubic kilometers of cash. Or a pile of money that covers half of the continental US, stacked 1/4 of the height of Low Earth Orbit.
I honestly don't think one could physically burn that much cash since May 2022 in real life.
Edit: more mind bogglery!
The earth is ~40,000 km in circumference, so you could stack the bills almost 28m high around the equator (or circle the globe 256,482 times.)
azdleI think you found a factor of a thousand somewhere along the way. I get 497 cubic meters: www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=(0.0043+inches+*+2.6…
You're wording needs some work there. If you trying to say that the "pile" would reach 1/4 low earth orbit and cover half the continental US, you're absolutely incorrect. If you are saying it is a "pile of money" that "when laid out as a single layer can cover half of the continent" or "when made into a single stack would reach 1/4 of the height of LEO", that would be mostly accurate. For perspective, 44 billion would be 44k briefcases, or 440 pallets. That's about 17 semi trailers (single high) or 9 trailers double-stacked. As a "pile" it could easily fit in a single Wal-mart parking lot and wouldn't even be that high. Still a lot of money though.
That doesn’t sound right. I get a volume of about 1.13 cubic cm per 100 dollar bill. There are 440 million 100 dollar bills needed for 44 billion. That gives us a volume of about 500 cubic meters. That’s not even a large warehouse. Even for 1 dollar bills we would then only have roughly 50000 cubic meters, which is a far cry from 500 cubic kilometers, which would be about 5*10^11 cubic meters. A single stack of 44 billion 1 dollar bills would be about 4800km high.
rm_dash_r_starIn imperial units I get this for a single stack of 44B in $100 bills;
.0043 inches * 44B / (12 inches in a foot * 5280 feet in a mile) = 2986 miles
That would be approximately the distance from LA to New York. That’s a long stack of bills.
I think you’re off on your calculations…
hoodatninjaMust've gone to Trump University
And not even as a genericized term. (Google and Xerox HATE that they're used as verbs.)
"Tweet" is only ever used to describe posting to Twitter. It's a very unique position that's about as ideal as it gets for a company brand.
You can lose your trademark if your name becomes generic
Putting it this way makes me kind of sad. It’s weird because Twitter has been an undeniable cancer on society too, so I’m split between being glad for their demise and feeling sorry for the ruin of their achievements.