#Elon Musk acquisition

[sleepy-bebby]

I thought comedy and free speech was now legal? Unless it’s a tweet about Elon then I guess jail for 1000 years!!1!!1! >:(

[techfeeddata]

From acquisition to exit: Everything that happened after Elon Musk's Twitter deal

From acquisition to exit: Everything that happened after Elon Musk’s Twitter deal

Elon Musk on Friday announced the end of a $44 billion bid to buy the microblogging site Twitter, citing a failure to provide adequate information about the number of fake accounts. According to AFP, Musk’s lawyer Mike Ringler took to Twitter to complain that his client (Musk) had been waiting nearly two months to find data on “fake or spam” accounts on the social media platform. Today we look at…

[shwoo]

I was able to make a Bluesky account a couple of days ago! I can't even remember when I requested an invite, but it was months ago. Got around to setting it up just now, and hope to make posts and stuff! Got the Shwoo name, too. Didn't have to replace the 00s with zeroes like on Twitter! Probably because there weren't like ten million usernames already taken. Just two million.

Actually, I looked it up, and Twitter already had over twenty million users by the time I joined. Can't find consistent numbers for how many it has at the moment, but it's between 300 and 500 million. That's more than most countries. Except China and India and maybe the US if the numbers are on the lower side.

[transhuman-priestess]

Original tweet

[usatyimysh]

2022 in miniature

[asshole-rebel-psycho]

Everyone is job is either a tech nerd from another country or an Instagram model who recruits the tech nerds from other countries.

[hanniballecterkinnie]

TWITTER USERS STAY BACK. STAY BACK I SAY.

[erin-hart]

Rule of Acquisition #288: Never get into anything that you can't get out of.

[headlinehorizon]

Elon Musk's Latest News: From Billion-Dollar Loan to Electrifying Remarks

Read about Elon Musk's jaw-dropping acquisition, his groundbreaking loan from SpaceX, and his electrifying remarks on progressive education and wealth inequality. Get caught up on the latest news from the pioneering billionaire entrepreneur.

[richdadpoor]

Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Remove Option to Block Users

Twitter, (recently rebranded as X) appears to be taking another turn for the worse as Elon Musk claimed on Friday that he is removing the Block feature from the app. If Musk goes through with it, users will reportedly still have the option to mute other profiles from appearing on their feeds, but the option to block unwanted followers from seeing your activity may become a thing of the past. Mr.…

[videoplanchette]

Feels relevant for some reason.

[sreegs]

i said this before to my friends but i guess it's worth posting here: i truly did not expect the scope of how bad the twitter acquisition would go. i genuinely thought musk was going to talk big and whine before the deal, then slowly over time wreck the site with a series of poor decisions.

the pace and magnitude of the fuckups he managed to pull in such a short period of time is unprecedented. it's SO fucking bad. since i at least have some technical understanding behind running a social network, i feel like i'm staring into the sun every time a new headline comes out. there is no hyperbole when it comes to describing how badly elon musk is fumbling the bag.

if you're absorbing this news and think that maybe it's not as bad as it sounds, i assure you it is probably WORSE than what we're hearing. this isn't just haters amplifying small mistakes, musk is weaving the goddamn rope.

it's a goddamn tragedy that billionaires never really suffer for their choices, but i think this is as close as we're gonna get before we start beheading them in the streets

[robpegoraro]

Weekly output: Disney CEO swap, streaming devices, adtech deal, Comcast freebies, robocall punishment, T-Mobile updates, World Cup ratings, Black Friday streaming deals, Musk touts Twitter growth

Weekly output: Disney CEO swap, streaming devices, adtech deal, Comcast freebies, robocall punishment, T-Mobile updates, World Cup ratings, Black Friday streaming deals, Musk touts Twitter growth

I had an exceedingly busy three days to start the week–as in, it was a good thing my flight Wednesday wasn’t until 3:15 in the afternoon–then managed to keep my hands off a keyboard for most of the rest of the week. Patreon readers got a bonus post Wednesday afternoon about my struggles getting Verizon to document where it’s expanded its C-band 5G service this year. 11/21/2022: Disney CEO…

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Meet the judge who tamed the Musk-Twitter trial

Meet the judge who tamed the Musk-Twitter trial

DOVER, Del. — A lawyer for billionaire Elon Musk had barely begun speaking during a recent hearing when the Delaware judge presiding over Twitter’s lawsuit against Musk abruptly cut her off. “Skip the rhetoric and go to the meat,” Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick said bluntly. The judge’s tone that day illuminates the no-nonsense approach she brings as the first woman to lead Delaware’s…

[orbitbrain]

Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko: The Wild Card in Musk's Clash With Twitter

Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko: The Wild Card in Musk’s Clash With Twitter

Home › Management & Strategy Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko: The Wild Card in Musk’s Clash With Twitter By AFP on September 12, 2022 Tweet Respected in cybersecurity circles, former Twitter security chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko is a wild card in Elon Musk’s legal gambit to break a $44 billion deal to buy the social network. Zatko’s whistleblower complaint of “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in Twitter…