Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by TheOtherHobbes on Monday April 25, 2022 @03:01PM (#31159204)

I think it's quite naive to assume that someone with billions to throw around doesn't have PR and social media management companies working for him.

These people are not like us. They're more like sovereign corporations with a pseudo-monarch as head, and a literal army of both overt and covert support workers handling security, PR and impression management, financial operations, and so on.

Social media bot accounts are possibly the lowest cost and highest return form of PR and sentiment management ever invented.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by jjeaff on Monday April 25, 2022 @05:10PM (#31160653)

Such large shill operations would be next to impossible to keep secret over the long term. The more people involved, the more difficult to keep secret.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by cwkoss on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:47PM (#31160381)

I would love for an investigative journalist to try to find an Elon-funded shill network.

I personally suspect that his army of stans is large enough he doesn't need shills, but it'd certainly be a huge story if they could prove he was funding shills.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by s1artibartfast on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:18PM (#31163276)

Why buy something you are already getting for free, and with ample supply?

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