[unknownaccount]

The purchase of twitter for $44b will be known as the most expensive corporate mistake in history. He's aleady chased away most of his advertisers, pissed off both sides of the political spectrum with his selective enforcement of rules, and clearly he's reneged on the whole idea of turning Twitter into a "public square" as theyre still taking down legal free speech. His ship is sinking. fast.

[dmak]

It's too early to judge.

[ideamotor]

You’re right. He still might realize he can use it to extract personally profitable handouts from ethno-nationalistic autocrats. Through suppression, promotion, and sharing user data. That would be good for him at least.

[dmak]

Okay? are you alright?

[ideamotor]

Nice smile: https://nypost.com/2022/08/15/elon-musk-writes-column-for-ch...

[pasttense01]

Nonsense. For example Yahoo had the opportunity to buy Google for $5 billion in 2002, and 20 years later Google is worth more than a trillion dollars. Or look at another trillion dollar plus company Microsoft--and remember that it was IBM that came out with the IBM PC in 1981--and then IBM totally blew it.

[phtrivier]

"This thing Elon Musk is doing is insane, it's never going to work" is bound to be true once in a while.

Let's just give this some time, though...