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Elon Musk hopes even his ‘worst critics remain on Twitter’ as takeover offer likely being considered
MSN-Moneycontrol ^ | 4-25-2022 | Staff

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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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

For every leftard idiot that leaves twitter over Musks’ takeover I figure at least 2 or 3 sane people will fill the void......I just may be one.


21 posted on 04/25/2022 12:06:30 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Fireone

“I reactivated my 2 year dormant account today, just to see how things are going”

And?


22 posted on 04/25/2022 12:09:11 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: V_TWIN

Have to give it some time, no changes will be made the first day.


23 posted on 04/25/2022 12:15:06 PM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: Fireone

“no changes will be made the first day”

A few suicide threats maybe


24 posted on 04/25/2022 12:16:29 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Yes, Elon, but the Twitter team responsible for cancelling conservative voices must all GO!


25 posted on 04/25/2022 12:18:56 PM PDT by rod5591
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To: Pollard
Do you use Fr in the same way you use Twitter?

Full disclosure, I don't use Twitter, Facebook etc.

26 posted on 04/25/2022 12:51:42 PM PDT by lewislynn (Is Fox News covering for Soros, Dominion, themselves with their continued silence on 2020)
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To: lewislynn

Pretty much. A lot of twitter is news articles that get posted and then people reply/comment to them.

FR is basically twitter without the character limit, modern styling, repost(retweet to your followers), follow and like button.

Also, you don’t have to chose a subject category and with news articles, you don’t have to fill in all the details because twitter, like any modern platform, pulls that in, along with one representative image, via the oembed protocol.

Same basic concept though. People post something and others reply to that and/or reply to other replies.

One big difference is that on twitter, everyone gets a home page and only see posts of people they follow. If you’re not following anyone, you’ll see some misc trending topics.


27 posted on 04/25/2022 1:07:46 PM PDT by Pollard (Who stole my tagline?)
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To: laplata

yes


28 posted on 04/25/2022 1:35:55 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I think he’s either misreading them or trolling them.


29 posted on 04/25/2022 1:38:18 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Pollard

Who posts the news articles?


30 posted on 04/25/2022 2:04:21 PM PDT by lewislynn (Is Fox News covering for Soros, Dominion, themselves with their continued silence on 2020)
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To: lewislynn

Same as here. Anyone who wants to.


31 posted on 04/25/2022 2:11:54 PM PDT by Pollard (Who stole my tagline?)
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