Posted on 05/17/2022 11:15:43 PM PDT by McGruff
Placemarker
I can see why. Twitter booted me 3 years ago for being a bot.
Twitter gets to define what's a bot.
Wonder if Twitter told its shareholders that...
Y’all are e funny. Musk has no intention of keeping Twitter. He wants the code and as soon as he has it, the company is toast. He’s just letting his opponents dig themselves a deeper grave.
10%? 30%? 70%?
Maybe only 10% of the accounts are bots but they very well may be writing 50% of the tweets. If I had been paying advertising costs I would not be too happy and sue the poop out of them for fraud.
Sarbanes-Oxley is a farce.
“Sarbanes-Oxley is a farce.”
Its primary use has always been as a weapon to extract money for the right recipients, and/or punish those not sufficiently subservient to the deep state.
When a CEO and CFO sign off on a 10-Q SEC filing, they are attesting to its accuracy. Fraudulent filings are a BIG no-no.
“ How much is likely fake, or cannot be fully verified?”
I don’t have a Twitter account, but I have a real FB account and also an alias account. I also have alias email accounts with Google and Yahoo. I don’t use them hardly at all, but I have never gotten any notices about them. I use them mainly when a site wants one of them to continue viewing the site, but I don’t want to give them access to the real information. I’m sure lots of our FRiends have alias accounts, too.
If you were to blast evidence of huge fraud committed by a publicly traded company, even if the SEC wants it kept quiet, they would have to crack down on Twitter.
That would be a yuuuuge class-action lawsuit.
I’m one of those stock-holders (65 shares).
The problem is, after the advertisers get their ‘pain and suffering’ money....there’s nothing left in the pot. This is a company that never paid a dividend to stock-holders (just kept talking soon maybe).
Their value...was content. And they just never grasped that angle to the whole operation.
The entire stock market is a racket, designed to make those politically connected extremely wealthy at our expense. It exists only in peoples’ minds and as ones and zeros on computers. The only people that should own a business are its founders, partners, heirs, or whoever buys it or is willed to after the previous owner’s death.
The stock market should not exist.
Then how did we just get news yesterday that half of POTUS' followers are fake???
“My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate.”
I used to buy quite a bit of television advertising. I would be provided with, IIRC, Neilson ratings breaking down the number of viewers at any given time. It was an invaluable service allowing me to get more bang for the buck.
supposedly the business model does not support the growing infrastructure.
twitter has to be getting $$ from somewhere to stay afloat.
CIA/FBI is a really good guess..
It is because the stock price is based on information that Twitter filed with the gubmint. If there are significantly more fake accounts than they filed and can be proved to know that it’s called fraud. Anyone who will ban the President of the US is likely to be that arrogant!
What you said! He’s going to get Twitter for pennies on the dollar or it will go away IMO!
My theory is that Twitter was developed just like Fakebook. Trailblazer was a program originally designed to track terrorist’s comms and morphed into Fakebook.
.......since Dorsey and Agrawal COULD BE charged criminally for knowingly (or they should have known) misrepresenting, in a major way, the VALUE of the company, no wonder they are finding difficulty releasing the data.
SEC and Biden and Biden’s Marxist acolytes in his innermost circle, along with their media PARTNERS, will COVER for Twitter.
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