Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
by vlovich123 on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:37AM
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> What people don‘t seem to take into account here is that Elon was forced to buy the company due to a binding offer he made but later found out user numbers to be manipulated and so on.
My understanding is that manipulated numbers would have been a legit reason to exit the deal but it turned out that Musk couldn’t provide that and thus was forced to go through with the offer. Am I misremembering?
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
by iamsanteri on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:46AM
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This could be the case, but he himself claims it to be more the way I said it. The details are obscure but I tend to believe his word rather than the passionate hater-horde and an army of mis-representers that are so many in number today. It’s Elon’s blunder so I don’t care all that much. Too bad for him!
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
by lolinder on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:33AM
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It's not a matter of taking Elon's word over the horde of haters, it's a matter of taking Elon's word over Elon's actions.
If he had evidence that his offer to buy Twitter was based on false information, he would have gone to court to fight it. Instead he caved before the court date, presumably because his lawyers persuaded him he stood no chance.
To me it looks like everyone who‘s trying to take him seriously by now with all this are making themselves laughing stock. And Musk couldn‘t care less.
For me the only problem is that I‘m a Tesla shareholder and I‘ve seen a sort of dilution and all his suffering first-hand, where a single share of mine has already turned into 15 since I bought it. Thus of course I have skin in the game, but I still consider this all as a big meme-like joke.
Soon we‘re all dead anyway, so let‘s not think about things too serious and money is just money for most people who have it. It‘s no bigger than life. Have fun and enjoy the ride, our 100 years on this planet are a sliver so we‘ll all be enjoying it in our own messed up ways. Elon does it this way.
This is how I see it.