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Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself by phillipcarter on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:56PM (#36556611)
All Elon had to do was leave it alone and, oh, right, the 44 billion.

Hahahahaha! Man, Parag Agrawal and his team knew exactly what they were doing. A fool and his money are soon parted, indeed.

Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself by bottlepalm on Saturday July 01, 2023 @09:00PM (#36557068)
Playing 5 dimensional chess with that poison pill huh?
Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself by Sai_ on Sunday July 02, 2023 @01:44AM (#36558581)
I have an alternative theory for this. Once Elon was forced by the DE court to buy Twitter, he went to autocrats and dictators with money and told them he'd burn Twitter to the ground on their behalf for 44B.

No Twitter, no Arab Spring. No live updates of disasters, no need to shutdown the internet to prevent dissenting voices from spreading.

Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself by adamcblodgett on Sunday July 02, 2023 @01:54AM (#36558632)
Are we doing theories? Mine is that Peter Thiel sold Musk on buying Twitter by convincing him of his ability to make it profitable with his genius, knowing full well he'd sink the thing in 18 months, and another pesky tool would be off the table for awhile.
Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself by extasia on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:25AM (#36560825)
That theory is pure speculation on the basis of motive with no actual grounding in reality, no offense. There's not a shred of evidence that GlobalAutocracy™ banded together to cough up $50B to kill of Twitter...
Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself by regularjack on Sunday July 02, 2023 @12:53PM (#36563247)
You thought Musk was playing 4D chess? Think again. He was in fact playing 29D chess, with dictators, and autocrats.