i don’t tweet, I’m not 100% sure what Twitter does or what value it would bring to my life. My observation from afar is this was well less than a financial investment for Musk but more am so driven deal. And perhaps he feels the need to level the playing field in the political arena. Who knows, Musk is obviously very complex and impossible to determine his true agenda.
Somebody owns this forum the same way Elon owns Twitter.
Twitter at least was, the premier social media platform in the world, and this one is considerably smaller, devoted to pipe smokers. But on Twitter you can become famous with your friends, posting witty sayings and links and even short videos.
Like this forum, Twitter’s revenue comes from advertisers. Using it requires only a sign up. Twitter earns so much money from those advertisers, who use it to sell products and services. A television or radio station or newspaper is about the same business model.
Elon Musk earlier this year was the richest man on earth and one of the richest men that has ever lived.
He has so much money he dated Amber Heard for a couple of years, and she’s not said a bad word about him. He owns a space plane. His Tesla company had a market value of one trillion dollars.
If had even a few billion of his billions, there would be a sucker rod steel fence going up right now a half mile South of Bug Tussle and ponds building that the Pharos might envy.
But Elon Musk wanted to own Twitter, and he impulsively offered 44 billion dollars for it. They sued him and forced him to buy Twitter for 44 billion.
Musk used borrowed money, to buy Twitter. He then proceeded to fire half the staff, and about half those he didn’t fire quit.
Most of the users that were kicked off for insulting the other users were let back on, and Musk is flaming the advertisers that paid Twitter money to advertise. He’s devoting most of his time to Twitter, so that his Tesla company has lost a half a trillion dollars in market share, upsetting Tesla investors considerably. His concerned bankers are demanding more security, and he’s selling half price Tesla stock by the billions to pay margin calls.
Elon Musk’s mother is still alive, the oldest supermodel on earth still on the catwalks.
She needs to go home, pick up a stove poker, and give her son two choices. Either straighten up, or else.
It’s all greatly entertaining to watch, and we all are watching it, to the benefit of the television, radio, and newspapers.
Real life is more fascinating than fiction.
No way, you can make this up.
