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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by quantified on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:26PM (#44513893)
You are conveniently omitting his reason to buy it. Personal megaphone and shortly thereafter LLM training data are the simplest reasons.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by contrast on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:16PM (#44514321)
I think the GP is suggesting a simple explanation of why it went badly, since that is the subject of the thread, rather than an explanation of why Musk bought Twitter. No need for conspiratorial accusations of conveniently omitting anything.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by woah on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:52PM (#44515082)
Maybe he just spent a lot of time shitposting on there.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by rgreek42 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @09:43PM (#44516417)
He did not want to buy it. He took an arrogant joke far enough that the Delaware Court of Chancery forced him to do it. He never wanted it earnestly.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by stephen_g on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:41AM (#44518749)
Buying a 9.1% stake in a company before making an unsolicited (but formal) offer to buy out the rest of it is weird behaviour for somebody who didn’t actually ever want to buy it…
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