#$44 billion

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Oh shit lol. Twitter HQ in San Francisco tonight. Twitter users are sending out ‘last tweets’ amid another worker exodus and fears the site could go dark 

Turmoil at Twitter reached a new level on Thursday, as users witnessed in real time the mass resignation of staffers in the wake of Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover. Some questioned whether the social media company would survive the exodus of staff on top of previous layoffs of around 3,700 workers.

“Goodbye Twitter” and “#RIPTwitter” were trending with more than 60,000 combined tweets, and hundreds of workers reportedly left on Thursday after Musk’s 2 p.m. deadline to commit to his strategy or resign. Some users speculated that they were sending out their last tweets and that the social network would soon stop working.

Departing workers took to the social network, sharing sentimental, humorous and defiant messages.

Matt Miller, who said he worked at Twitter for over nine years posted a video       from what appeared to be inside the company’s offices as the deadline came. “We’re all about to get fired,” he said nonchalantly while standing next to four other workers.

“I walked away from my dream job today with a full heart because of the people I got to work with everyday,” said Jessalyn Johnson, a departing Twitter Real Estate and Workplace Strategy operations manager. Johnson shared photos of what she called “the best 4.5 years a girl could wish for” to her timeline.

Kristyn Kawaja, a senior client account manager, tweeted that leaving was one of the most difficult decisions she’d ever made. “Coworkers turned into family, and clients turned into trusted partners and friends. I wouldn’t change this experience for the world,” she said.

Musk himself tweeted on Thursday evening in the wake of the departures, in what appeared to be a reference to Twitter’s dire finances.

“How do you make a small fortune in social media? Start out with a large one,” Musk said, after previously claiming the company was losing $4 million per day, which necessitated layoffs. Musk took out more than $13 billion in debt to complete his deal and is liable for over $1 billion in annual interest payments.

[trump666traitor]

[wifeymonologue]

ELON MUSK BOUGHT TWITTER FOR $44 BILLION

ELON MUSK BOUGHT TWITTER FOR $44 BILLION

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars. This move has come as a surprise to many, but it makes perfect sense when you consider Musk’s history and Twitter’s potential. There are six main reasons why this purchase makes sense for Musk: Twitter is a powerful communication tool. Twitter can help promote Tesla and SpaceX. Twitter can be used to build…

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[thebessthingathisparty]

College Hockey Team AU! F1 Drivers twitters 5

F1 Grid x reader!platonic

Sorry i’ve had to split these into so many parts, i can only upload 10 photos at a time 😣

There’s just the girls left, but i think i’ll split there’s in two parts so i can fit them all

George Russell:

Lewis Hamilton:

[ilikedetectives]

Was gonna check out some new mods today, but then got distracted by the craziest embezzling case in Vietnam's financial history, this real estate tycoon (Trương Mỹ Lan) stole what is an equivalent of 10% of Vietnam's entire GDP???????? (x)

[itsbenedict]

Do you have a source for the Brazilian courts demanding personal information of the posters? I haven't been following the story very closely, but everything I've seen has only talked about censorship, which Mush already did for Turkey last year.

I haven't been following it closely either- I'm just going off this post, by someone I don't know and whose objectivity I distrust. They claim that the new Brazilian government had a Jan 6-style failed coup attempt by their far right, and that their Supreme Court ruled that the social media platforms the participants used to coordinate the attempt were required to hand over all their information about the attackers so they could be prosecuted. Purportedly, Musk said no, this obviously violated the laws that said he had to do it, and there is now a legal snafu of some sort.

I don't expect OP to have been lying about most of this, because they're arguing that the demands were justified- but I also can't find a source on that specifically, yeah. The news stories I'm seeing only mention that they demanded that some number of users' accounts should be suspended due to "spreading misinformation". I'm not sure if the link between the riots (which happened) is as direct as OP is implying, but it seems plausible.

Regardless, communications platforms should not be legally liable for speech hosted on them, and even though the rioters in question probably should be arrested, demanding that Twitter be involved in this process and taking retaliatory action against them for noncompliance is- and I believe this is the technical term- "some real bullshit".

If web platforms can be held responsible for anything any government decides is "misinformation", then you have a serious problem the next time you get a Bolsonaro. You don't want Twitter to cave to these sorts of orders. This was the correct move.

...And, as you note, the move Musk did not make when Erdogan demanded the same thing in 2023. One would hope that this is him regretting that decision and opting to do better this time, but more realistically he's just less principled than he likes to think and makes these decisions mainly on the basis of culture war grudges and how personally pissed off he happens to be today.

[stopandimagineloveforever]

Elon Musk called Trent Reznor a "crybaby" for deleting his Twitter account. Wil Wheaton's response 👇🏻

Saw this on your Facebook, @wilwheaton. Absolutely brilliant.

💯 accurate.

[chribby]

Every time yi long ma has a major lunar experience (this recent moon in cancer was on top of his custody battle, this next moon in Virgo being his lunar return) what he does in order to have a sense of control is take out major functions of the website.

Also, his moons ruler, mercury, is retrograde. This rules his sun. So he’s going to be on bullshit all month long.

Elon if youre reading this: you need real therapy not Peter Thiel telling you “well, at least you’re not Black…”

[conurecc]

ah so elon realized he looked bad for unbanning a lot of white supremacists & neo-nazis so now it's a poll about "general amnesty" - just like how he was gonna unban trump anyway but used a twitter poll to avoid culpability

what a tremendous pussy, we know who your friends are

[mudwerks]

(via Elon Musk Values Twitter at $19 Billion One Year After Takeover)

Just imagine what someone who wasn’t a total dickhead/asshole could do with $25 BILLION.

Instead of throwing it away on vanity you could start to change the world.

...oh well - he’s not nearly done throwing money away 

[absyyynth]

after some quick maths ive determined i was singlehandedly (only counted eggs i myself put into the basket) responsible for collecting 0.000003456% of all the golden eggs collected in the grand big run. get on my level

[nvara-of-mortains-own]

a compilation

(link to video, the projection on twitter headquarters describing Elon Musk scrolls to read: bankruptcy baby, supreme parasite, petulant pimple, apartheid profiteer, dictator’s asskisser, lawless oligarch, insecure colonizer, cruel hoarder, space Karen, mediocre manchild, pressurized privilege, petty racist, megalomaniac, worthless billionaire before looping)

[rayarainbows]

ok so all i’m saying is that if the X rebrand fully happens, bluesky social and jack dorsey would have the opportunity to do maybe the funniest thing possible

[lennythereviewer]

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Elon Musk paid 44 BILLION DOLLARS to buy a website that will never stop making fun of him and has done more to tank his public image than help it by exposing how childish he truly is, and that he’s just a narcissistic crybaby that is somehow simultaneously the richest man in the world yet can’t figure out how to buy happiness with all that money

[umbrellacorphq]

In response to the many requests for a press release - our official statement is that Umbrella Corporation will not be commenting on rumours of an attempted hostile buyout by an external stakeholder.

Hostiles are always contained internally.