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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by awb on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:21PM (#35378348)
The same goes for any billionaire with investments, which is pretty much all of them I’d imagine.

And those assets even if they’re not all disposable at the market price can be used as collateral without liquidating them.

So I think it’s still fair to say that Musk, etc. still have the greatest personal financial leverage available to them in the world.

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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by mrguyorama on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:23PM (#35390170)
People also always ignore the whole "Controls giant corporations" thing. You have significant leeway to direct companies you control into things you want without falling foul of regulations. Consider Musk bringing in Tesla software developers to Twitter.

Just because that power can't always be converted to cash 100% in a second doesn't mean it doesn't exist

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