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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by williamsmj on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:50PM (#31030548)
That makes sense if you assume Musk has learned something shocking about Twitter from the inside in the past couple of weeks. How likely is that?

It seems spectacularly unlikely to me that a demonstrably impatient person with a pre-existing thesis about Twitter would take the time to investigate and learn new things about its product/financials/culture/governance.

It also seems unlikely that a person with a known strong stomach for legal and ethical "flexibility" would be especially bothered by anything they did learn, assuming they took the trouble. But YMMV.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by cambaceres on Thursday April 14, 2022 @02:28PM (#31031230)
His point is that it will look like Elon didn't like what he saw and changed his mind, it doesn't matter what he truly saw.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by moffkalast on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:08PM (#31031809)
"Musk, what do your Elon eyes see?"

"They're taking Twitter to Isengard!"

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by supramouse on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:33PM (#31032163)
I do think something like twitter longterm could a big play at something like authenticity verification in the world of deep fakes, similar to what keybase was trying to do but they already have traction with public figures
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by MadSudaca on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:08PM (#31031826)
As a hypothetical investor on Twitter, would you be willing to take that chance?
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