Posted on 04/26/2022 7:46:30 AM PDT by marktwain
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, threw his support behind Elon Musk’s deal to take the social media platform private, with a Twitter thread that begins with a link to Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place.”
The Twitter board had unanimously approved the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s unsolicited offer amidst polarizing reactions and a shift in content moderation policies that some users claim has already begun. As the drama unfolds, Dorsey weighed in with his opinion regarding the takeover and Twitter’s future with Musk at the helm.
“In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter,” Dorsey said late Monday. “It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company, however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.”
Dorsey said in the thread that Twitter has always been “my biggest regret,” and taking it back from “Wall Street” was the “correct first step” for the popular platform.
Musk said on Saturday that Twitter’s board was not acting in the interests of its shareholders and that board members would be paid nothing if he takes over. Although Dorsey said that the executive board has “consistently been the dysfunction of the company,” his recent posts suggest he has some hopes that Musk can build a working team.
“Elon’s goal of creating a platform that is ‘maximally trusted and broadly inclusive’ is the right one. This is also @paraga’s goal, and why I chose him. Thank you both for getting the company out of an impossible situation. This is the right path … I believe it with all my heart,” Dorsey posted, referring to Parag Agarwal, the current CEO
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When Dorsey was in charge he was a complete POS.
Now he has Elon’s sword tip at his throat and will say anything.
Straight out of Shakespeare or something.
I confess I am at a loss to explain how twitter makes money. There are no fees, no ads. What gives?
Twitter makes the majority of its revenue through ads, and secondarily through ‘data licensing’, whatever that is.
That’s what I was attempting to say.
Dorsey doesn’t believe what he said.
I trust Musk more than any billionaire.
He’s weird, but I’ll take a Libertarian over a globalist any day.
I don’t go there very often, but when I do I don’t see ads.
But yes, right after I posted I googled it. It is as you say.
Lol wow! OK, who,ripped the universe in two?
Well, the beard is getting close. :)
How Twitter Makes Money
Short version: Ad sales and user data sales. They operate at a loss. Many people have come to think it is not a profitable business model. That may be the case, even with free speech.
It’s one of those “famous for being famous” things. The advertising model attached to it doesn’t work, but big companies continue to buy ads because they heard that twitter has a big audience. Twitter then looks like a viable company because it has big advertisers. Rinse and repeat. It’s a house of cards.
twitter, google, and facebook are basically scams that sell things. And above all sell their targeted marking data to each other. I’m happy to use adblockers to be somewhat immune to it.
Although I do hear that ‘liberty liberty’ jingle in my head after just a few plays.
Dorset pretendingto be pro voice now that elon is owner is like Liz Cheney or lindsay graham or mitt romney pretending to be solid republicans when election time rolls around
So it's no surprise he will be kissing Elon's butt and calling him the messiah.
To the right of my screen I get a few “what’s trending” links and a couple of “who to follow” links. I forgot that stuff is even there. It may be that I use the Avast browser, and I’m just not seeing ads.
This is where he looses me...
I don’t see Musk as a globalist true believer.
I think he’s a Libertarian that actually believes in free speech.
I also don’t think Truth Social is a competitor to Twitter.
Truth Social is for people that are already Trump people and probably lib trolls.
Twitter has far greater reach and could convert some middle ground people.
In the end votes matter.
If you think there’s no hope of winning because of fraud, spare me your negativity.
And never forget that Dorsey is almost entirely to blame for the S#it show that twitter became. It went from an ok place to being a tyrannical leftist dystopia under him.
Musk is in this to make money and gain position. I don’t think he’s some big conservative savior at all.
In the last 18 months, I have agreed with Bill Maher 8 times.
We are all witnessing the end…
Yep, he’s part of the cancel crowd.
A Look Back at the Deranged Twitter Board Members Who Nearly Murdered the Company https://www.revolver.news/2022/04/disastrous-twitter-board-members-and-the-elon-musk-takeover/
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