Posted on 10/27/2022 9:00:41 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
Elon Musk is officially Twitter's new daddy -- at least according to Elon Musk -- who says he hopes the platform will continue to be a digital town square for years to come.
The Tesla/SpaceX boss explained his reasons for the $44 billion purchase Thursday, saying, "There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide in our society."
He continues, "In the relentless pursuit of clicks, much of traditional media has fueled and catered to those polarized extremes, as they believe that is what brings in the money, but, in doing so, the opportunity for dialogue is lost."
He says, "That is why I bought Twitter. I didn't do it because it would be easy. I didn't do it to make more money. I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love. And I do so with humility, recognizing that failure in pursuing this goal, despite our best efforts, is a very real possibility."
Elon's Twitter bio reflects his new purchase as well, calling himself the "Chief Twit." There's also a video that circulated this week showing the guy roaming about headquarters with moving boxes.
Like we said ... it closes the book on what turned out to be a bitter acquisition -- one that almost didn't happen when Elon threatened to pull out at the last minute. Remember, he said he felt Twitter wasn't giving him enough info on bots and spam accounts ... and that the value of the company might not have been as high as he was willing to pay at first.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
Heads exploding...
Gentlemen, start the layoffs
I wonder what Twitter’s management did the past few months to poison-pill the deal by including a massive severance for those who end up being laid off.
This will be interesting.
By my view the majority of Tweater users are liberals.
(I’ve been suspended for years but can read tweets)
Will they stick around? Or will Tweater become another version of Parler, Truth Social, etc?
Luv it.
That’s why the twitter commies who are quitting hacked the New York post twitter account before leaving .. now bring back trump and Juanita Broderick
that would be fraud
Ok Musk reinstate Trumps account now .
Let’s see if Trump and other notables on the right start getting unbanned.
(Wouldn’t that be awesome if it happened before the election?)
Some will leave, some won’t.
It’s my understanding Musk wants to change the site as well.
Some type of marketplace in addition to its current scope.
We’ll see.
I’m not sure how true that is. I follow about 100 conservative accounts on Twitter and have created a pretty good conservative commentary/news feed out of it. Now I just need to worry less about my followed accounts being taken out of action.
“By my view the majority of Tweater users are liberals.”
By my estimation, the majority of twitter users are bots run by a few liberals :)
One of the biggest head-fakes of all time. I don’t know what he is going to do with what he bought; but I’m pretty sure he’s going to re-purpose it.
And among his first steps should be to unban all current and former US elected officials, inviting them, including President Trump to rejoin the platform. Setting that legal free speech shall be observed and respected, promising to fire any employee that violates it for political or personal reasons.
Great, now fire everybody.
If he REALLY wants to “help humanity”, he’ll shut down Twitter once the ink is dry on the buyout.
Then, he can do the same for Facecrook, Instaporn, and TikToCCP.
if true, there’s a lot of egg on a lot of faces.
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