Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data

Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by dekhn on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:57PM (#31689127)

With Musk it's hard to know exactly what his plan is, but I think it's an attempt to either find a way to back out, reduce the overall price, or otherwise cause chaos as an intentional strategy.

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by felixfurtak on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:19PM (#31689271)

More likely global stock markets took a dive which devalued Twitter (and Tesla) substantially making the offer over-priced.

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by dannyw on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:16AM (#31690332)

He should have hedged then. If markets have gone up, he would've reaped the benefits and Twitter wouldn't be able to back out.

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by behnamoh on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:57PM (#31689856)

well maybe he should not have offered a price based on meme numbers then.

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by kmonsen on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:56AM (#31690215)

This is true, speaking from experience with bipolar people close to me.

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by concinds on Friday June 10, 2022 @05:01AM (#31691704)

No psychiatrist would diagnose someone based on public performances, and non-psychiatrists using pop-psychology to do so is very unpleasant.

This is a wider cultural trend too. The prevalence of Dunning-Kruger pop-psychology YouTube videos (again made by people with zero medical degree) nowadays "teaching" people to recognize "Narcissism", "Psychopathy", "Mania", "Manipulation" etc. is absolutely vile. Just teach people assertiveness and leave it at that.

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by ModernMech on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:15AM (#31693658)

I’m not diagnosing, I’m saying there is another possible reason. Nothing about Elon tells me he’s not bipolar.

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by water554 on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:44PM (#31689764)

Hypermanic

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by daseiner1 on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:58PM (#31689865)

there is no such this as “hypermania”

there is mania (Bipolar I) and hypomania (“lesser mania”) (Bipolar II)

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by ModernMech on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:05AM (#31693518)

And for anyone wondering, the difference between the two is the presence of psychosis.

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by heavyset_go on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:24AM (#31690036)

I think it's a character thing for Musk, he's simply the kind of person who does things like this because he can.

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