Posted on 04/25/2022 11:15:51 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Business tycoon and Twitter enthusiast Elon Musk is hopeful of the microblogging platform’s board considering his buy-out offer worth $43 billion in cash. As the Twitter bigwigs deliberate on the future of the platform, the Tesla titan has urged even his worst critics to not quit using it.
Amid anticipations concerning the possibilities of him becoming the new Twitter owner, the billionaire took to the platform on April 25 and wrote: “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter because that is what free speech means.”
I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2022
One must note here that Musk has been a strong proponent and vanguard of free speech and cited it as one of the primary reasons behind his desire to takeover Twitter. He had earlier conducted a Twitter poll saying “free speech is essential to a functioning democracy”, and asked his followers to vote on whether they believe the microblogging platform adheres to this principle rigorously.
Many users have since wondered if such a guarantee would mean welcoming banned right-wingers such as Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene back into the space.
Twitter is reportedly in the final stretch of negotiations about its sale to Tesla founder Elon Musk and could reach a deal later on Monday.
Twitter is "set to accept the offer" and the agreement could be reached later today, news agency Reuters has learned from sources.
A person privy to the latest developments told Bloomberg that the company is "working to hammer out terms of a transaction", adding that the deal could be finalized "as soon as Monday".
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“I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2022”
That’s an excellent pre-emptive strike against the tyrannical bastards.
His only real problem is finding software engineers who want to work for him.
The radicalization of Silicon Valley began 30 years ago and there were some truly crazy people working there even then.
Its gotten much worse since Obama.
Apparently the news is its a done deal. Musk will soon own Twitter.
Social media with its anonymity attracts mostly the lowest of life.
There is one big problem that the new owners of Twitter will face. They are using Cloud service databases for their operations. This means they are vulnerable to being shut down externally. Especially if they are using Amazon Web Services databases like Redshift. I believe the next step will be a shutdown of Twitter by AWS or others.
If Elon Musk first fires Twitter's HR department and then insists that only American citizens are to be hired he will have no problem finding millions of excellent software engineers willing to work for Twitter.
If Elon Musk first fires Twitter's HR department and then insists that only American citizens are to be hired he will have no problem finding millions of excellent software engineers willing to work for Twitter.
MUSK SMEAR ? :
A Cali billionaire—Dan O’Dowd—is running for California senate on the platform of smearing Musk’s self driving software. The high tech vet is running TV ads in Arizona, which makes little sense unless it’s a national smear, perhaps related to Twitter.
O’Dowd is a rich Californian, which makes him a likely anti-Trumper, imho.
Anyone else seen these videos which demonstrate Tesla auto driving software behaving badly, which may or may not be true and a conversation for another day.
Next: Facebook!Then: CNN!After that: Disney!
Facebook admitted that they hit user peak a few months ago. Now it’s just attrition. 🥳
Adult taking toy from child results in tantrum coming.
Just heard on the radio that Musk ownership is now a done deal.
Musk has his own agenda, I am pretty sure it does not align with yours
FR is anonymous.
They can stay on Reddit.
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I reactivated my 2 year dormant account today, just to see how things are going.
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