Microsoft, apple, google, meta, amazon, tencent what was preventing them to buy twitter?
Because Twitter (as an investment) is terrible because of the lack of revenue it has. Musk just bought it because his investment wasn’t for twitter’s success, but to get into the white house.
I was gonna, but I ended up needing new tires on the car.
Because there’s really nothing worth investing in, with people who just scream at eachother all day. The only social media platform that is probably worth acquiring in their eyes is Facebook because Facebook actually has more going for them and has acquired other companies too. Twitter was just…Twitter.
For one thing, Musk’s offer was thought to be very generous. He was also a lone actor who didn’t need to worry about it blowing back on him somehow if the deal fell through, as opposed to a CEO who’s actually accountable to someone.
Another billionaire could have done it, I guess, but there’s like ten guys who were rich enough and only one was Elon Musk.
Even before musk bought it, it was a house of cards. At no point in it’s history since it’s creation has it EVER made money. It was ALWAYS a money loser. That’s why they were trying to sell it in the first place. It had value, but nothing close to 43 BILLION dollars.
It was assumed to sell for a few hundred million before musk ran his mouth, and joked that he’d do it for 43 billion. Then he took the joke as far as signing legal paperwork, then bitched that he HAD to now buy it for his joke price of 43 billion.
And now you read daily how much money it’s losing. Firstly because even if he paid a fair price for it, AND ran it perfectly, it would still be losing money. But he bought it for 43 BILLION dollars, and from day one publically harassed advertisers saying he doesn’t need them.
Well, even under perfect conditions, the advertisers were the only thing keeping twitters losses pre-musk at a minimum. They were losing about 13 million a year since 2008. And now it was adding up.
But now you got advertisers to go fuck themself. And they leave. Then he alienates twitters at the time core leftist by…well existing. And now you got all these people leaving twitter in droves. So now, even for the advertisers that remain, twitters reach loses 40% of it’s value. Which means advertisers aren’t willing to pay old rates. Which means less revenue.
And all these other companies, before musk bought it, looked at an unprofitable social media site, then remembered how MySpace went, and thought “…no.”
Musk didn’t buy Twitter to make money, he bought it to control the narrative. To censor some voices and amplify others.
And now he’s our shadow president.
He wasn’t just a joke, musk was legally forced to make his deal real to avoid having manipulated the market and potentially go to prison. This was before he became POTUS . If it happened today he would just tell the courts to fuck off and replace those who aren’t loyal without ever actually buying twitter
Twitter was developing the at protocol and bluesky, think they always saw it eventually dying and had bluesky as their backup
Bluesky was an EEE operation. Meant to kill federation by capturing users then forcing an instance monopoly. That’s why it is federated on paper only. In practice no engineering was done to make it actually federated at all. Now they’re far behind the Activity pub and mastodon, and the rest of the fediverse despite having much more investment.
At no point in it’s history since it’s creation has it EVER made money.
Actually they did make money in 2018 and 2019 but then the pandemic caused advertisers to cut spending.
It had value, but nothing close to 43 BILLION dollars.
43 billions is peanuts compared to the 3 trillions apple and microsoft market cap. Twitter is one of the biggest social network in the world and the one more used by politicians. It has plenty of value even if not making profits, everyone know how it works.
And now you read daily how much money it’s losing.
Last time i hear about him he was talking over the president, as expected from owning one of the biggest social networks in the world he isn’t losing much.
It has plenty of value even if not making profits, everyone know how it works.
That is true and also applies to Youtube,. However, remember that shareholder mentality is “MONY NAO!!! FUCK THE FUTURE”. CEOs would have to make a very good case for buying a money sink with very little chance of becoming profitable. Elon bought the company as an individual, so he didn’t have to answer to a board of directors or shareholders complaining about reduced quarterly profits
Doesn’t make much business sense for the megacorps.
Doesn’t make much business sense for megacorps to buy one of the biggest social media that allowed his new ceo a place in the white house?
It is consideted crass by the megarich to use their new money to overtly purchase politicians. They prefer to do it behind closed doors, mostly to keeo them cheap
Twitter was never profitable until data was worth enough and even then…
Musk tried to pump and dump the stock by saying it was worth much more than it was. Then he immediately got sued because if you manipulate the market like that and have the cash to pay, you have to or it’s considered a crime. Musk then tried to back out, shareholders threaten to sue, and he pretended he actually didnt wanna back out and bought it.
He purchased it at twice its market value and has since not only cut 80% of staff, but also lost 80% of its original value (not the double musk paid)…
Twitter only had value to musk because he wanted to use it as a disinformation tool to help SA/Russia/China. He immediately made it a right wing platform where this content is more valuable. It was a dumb decision, still has a dumb business plan and a fuckton of debts. The only reason it didn’t disappear completely is Musk is too rich, but it’s trending down. It’s projected to grow as the US becomes an oligarchy but not because it has real value. Musk wants to turn it into Facebook+ Cash app
Buying twitter was all in all a terrible business move and mostly to stroke elons ego. Sadly this is “too big to fail” territory
Twitter only had value to musk because he wanted to use it as a disinformation tool to help SA/Russia/China.
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Why am i not surprised to immediately find garbage like “genocide Joe” in your post history.
You couldn’t even formulate an argument. Thanks for making it obvious why to block
musk was mouthing off in an official enough way that he got trapped into buying it. He lost tens of billions. It was basically a money pit and he has drove it to even more of a money loser.
Doesn’t seem like he lost much, like you would expect by buying one of the biggest social platform in the world he got even richer and more relevant (enough to get a sit in the white house)
Well he does get investors. Like the openai thing he is leading a group of investors and as other folks point out loans. so he does spread the losses out to other folks. Honestly this destroys the economy really. Its one of my arguments for higher taxes for the rich in a progressive way that should keep having brackets till you get to the highest. It means making more money takes more ability as it becomes a harder and harder thing to do. Makes sure the best are messing around at those levels or keeps those levels from happening to begin with.
He has unlimited money. I am pretty sure he doesn’t really care.
Except he doesn’t really have unlimited money. Like most rich bastards he had assets - aka, hypothetical money (investments). They take out loans using that hypothetical money as collateral, and then have to pay that money back over time, which they can do by earning dividends (hypothetical money increases that they can access without penalties) or selling hypothetical money for real money (possibly with penalties).
Musk borrowed an enormous amount of money, which saddled the loaners with hypothetical money that began to decrease in value, and were this unable to profit by selling it for actual money. They therefore have to trust that Musk will repay these loans or else sell them at a loss to some other dumb bastard.
Or be forced to sell assets to pay his debts.
bad investment
watch musk turn the “savings” from “DOGE” efforts into a gov purchase of twitter at twice what he paid, with the argument that they plan to nationalize a digital platform for communication between politicians and voters, while tying a privatized transactions system to the platform where he siphons a small percentage of every transactions ever done by an american henceforth.
