Musk offers to buy Twitter

[Eric]

About those blue check marks

 

[shadow puppet]

I'm enjoying the fact that Musk Face is now being sued in a class action suit in Northern California for the short notice mass layoffs.
I wonder how many more advertisers will bail.

Still think your knee jerk offer to buy Twitter was a good idea?

Twitter sued in class action lawsuit over mass layoffs without proper legal notice | TechCrunch

Former Twitter employees have filed a class action lawsuit against Twitter for failing to notify them of a mass layoff.

techcrunch.com

 

[lizkat]

I'm enjoying the fact that Musk Face is now being sued in class action suit in Northern California for the short notice mass layoffs.
I wonder how many more advertisers will bail.

Still think your knee jerk offer to buy Twitter was a good idea?

Twitter sued in class action lawsuit over mass layoffs without proper legal notice | TechCrunch

Former Twitter employees have filed a class action lawsuit against Twitter for failing to notify them of a mass layoff.

techcrunch.com

Yah, a veritable field day for lawyers is what Musk's Twitter acquisition has been, so far... and one can wonder if the SEC even has enough investigators to cover all the potential violation investigations. Just because it's a private company doesn't mean it's above applicable laws regarding investment, labor rights, defamation, section 230 of Title 47, EU data privacy etc. Between the vortices of legal chaos spun off by Musk and Trump, the planet could amazingly enough end up short of lawyers.

Can't decide whether to batten down the hatches and just not log into Twitter for awhile, or log in every day to see what's newly broken.

Part of me hopes some hedge fund will offer to buy Musk out for say 11% of what he paid for it plus whatever the banks demand to erase their $13B loan. And let the co-investors figure out if they like to stick around (or have they already departed and we just don't know about that yet?). So far they don't seem to have said much about post-acquisition developments, but there were a bunch of them had pledged to kick in a lot of dough to help Musk reduce his own 'margin call' to make good on the deal.

Elon Musk secures $7.14B from Larry Ellison, others to buy Twitter

Elon Musk has secured $7.14 billion in funding from a coterie of investors including Oracle’s co-founder Larry Ellison to fund his $44 billion purchase of Twitter. Musk, the world’s ric…

nypost.com

 

[shadow puppet]

I hate reading this. I really don't want to leave Twitter. I have a wonderful mixed group from politics to dogs and everything in between, all conveniently in one place. But I don't agree with this paying $8/month BS. I'll give it awhile longer before I make a decision but it's bullshit like this that is absolutely going to ruin Twitter. At least for me.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1588876465915166721/

 

[fooferdoggie]

So he is taxing or discriminating against poor while racists? Someone should sue him for that.

 

[Andropov]

Apparently the new verified feature has been rolled out but it doesn’t work. Shocking.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1588958839101337602/

 

[Eric]

Apparently the new verified feature has been rolled out but it doesn’t work. Shocking.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1588958839101337602/

They've just devalued every single authentic/verified person on Twitter, what a shame.

 

[shadow puppet]

I hate reading this. I really don't want to leave Twitter. I have a wonderful mixed group from politics to dogs and everything in between, all conveniently in one place. But I don't agree with this paying $8/month BS. I'll give it awhile longer before I make a decision but it's bullshit like this that is absolutely going to ruin Twitter. At least for me.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1588876465915166721/

When I posted this tweet in a convo at Twitter, I received this response:

If you search for your own Twitter handle and add "filter:verified" to the search terms you'll get an idea of the conversations you won't be able to have in the future. Politicians won't hear from their constituents. Nor artists from unverified fans.

I tried it and the result is not good. Sigh.

 

[Andropov]

They've just devalued every single authentic/verified person on Twitter, what a shame.

Devaluing verification is a feature, apparently. The change log says this:

It’s obvious Musk himself had a part writing this. What a dumb and obvious ploy. Hey! Buy this $8 status symbol! All the celebrities have it!

 

[shadow puppet]

You must be kidding. Sadly, I don't think they are.

Twitter Employees Forced to Sign Affidavit Swearing They Think Elon Musk Is Cool

The document also indicates that Musk’s arrival at Twitter headquarters while carrying a sink was “not only very cool but also super funny.”

www.newyorker.com

If you can't get past the paywall, it's fairly short:

Twitter Employees Forced to Sign Affidavit Swearing They Think Elon Musk Is Cool​

SAN FRANCISCO (The Borowitz Report)—"Under threat of imminent termination, Twitter employees are being required to sign an affidavit asserting that they think Elon Musk is cool.

The affidavit, which specifies that Musk is “a cool individual” and “extremely fun,” must be signed, notarized, and returned to Twitter headquarters by the end of business on Friday.

In addition to stating that the new Twitter boss is cool, the affidavit specifies several examples of “extremely cool things” that Musk has done.

For example, the document indicates that Musk’s arrival at Twitter headquarters while carrying a sink was “not only very cool but also super funny.”

Finally, the affidavit requires Twitter employees to agree with the statement “If I was having a barbecue and Elon Musk showed up uninvited, I would be totally psyched, owing to him being a cool guy whom everyone likes.”

 

[fischersd]

Damn...Elon's Donald's mini-me!

 

[Pumbaa]

You must be kidding. Sadly, I don't think they are.

“Satire from The Borowitz Report”, so kidding. For now.

 

[lizkat]

Take it with a grain of salt and put your eight bucks where it can count.... Here's Stephen Colbert's solution.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1588677512879800325/

 

[shadow puppet]

“Satire from The Borowitz Report”, so kidding. For now.

Thanks for straightening that out. I'm not familiar with The Borowitz Report.

Now folks are saying at least Musk Rat isn't charging users to block people. Not yet. I hope it doesn't go that far.

 

[Eric]

I'm sure they've done the math on their side but you have to wonder how many users they would need to purchase this to offset the loss of revenue for advertisers.

 

[Renzatic]

I'm sure they've done the math on their side but you have to wonder how many users they would need to purchase this to offset the loss of revenue for advertisers.

All he needs is 200 million people to sign up for their blue checks, then it's easy street for him.

 

[Pumbaa]

Thanks for straightening that out. I'm not familiar with The Borowitz Report.

Me neither. But hopefully satire still means satire.

Says a lot about Musk’s Twitter when one has to dig deeper to verify whether something is satire or real.

 

[Eric]

 

[lizkat]

Right...

 

[shadow puppet]

Right...

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