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Originally Posted By RattleCanAR: Yep Espeacially if they don't censor and demonetize the Pew Tuber crowd. Mr. Guns and Gear, Backfire, Garand Thumb, and Ultimate Reloader all have huge followings and are constantly being demonetized and losing their channels for nothing but being popped by YouTube for being gun channels. I can see a mass exodus by Pew Tubers to Twitter in the near future. View Quote Two of the three are on RUMBLE too. |
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Do bears bear? Do bees be?
'Cause you ugly and Yo Mama dresses you FUNKAY!!! |
Originally Posted By ConcernedCitizen: Even before this Twitter fiasco, he's the only person in the world that seems to have the future of humanity in mind. The other billionaires are only worried about their own futures. View Quote A lot of those other guys (Gates, Schwab, Soros, etc.) also have grand plans for humanity. But their plans don't benefit us common folk. By supporting leftwing causes, they are stifling innovation and encouraging oppression. |
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Twitter again readable without login?
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Twitter again readable without login? View Quote Someone taught me here to click the sign up button then click the x on the top of the sign up page to read tweets without signing in Similar to using the reader feature on your phone to see articles behind a paywall. |
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Originally Posted By Rustyprop: Someone taught me here to click the sign up button then click the x on the top of the sign up page to read tweets without signing in Similar to using the reader feature on your phone to see articles behind a paywall. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Rustyprop: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Twitter again readable without login? Someone taught me here to click the sign up button then click the x on the top of the sign up page to read tweets without signing in Similar to using the reader feature on your phone to see articles behind a paywall. You can also replace twitter.com in the URL with nitter.net and it should work. |
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View Quote Successfully tested is not the same as a constellation with enough of them to beat the latency of existing cable by utilizing the difference in the speed of light in a (near) vacuum vs an undersea cable... I don't think that will be fully online till starship starts getting up a good number of starlink v2 |
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Originally Posted By jb31: You don't see how they might have figured out that she wasn't really Musk and in violation? Or maybe you are just doing your usual contrarian trolling? View Quote They probably figured it out the same way every other person easily figured it out and realized it was someone mocking Elon - by looking at the username instead of the display name. Real tough to figure out. |
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Lighten up, Francis.
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A Grendel's Love is different from a 5.56's Love
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Originally Posted By SC4eyes: Two of the three are on RUMBLE too. View Quote Rumble just can’t get traction. I have an account and follow UR along with others but the views for them are nothing. Twitter has an established user group and will garner them followers that Rumble can only dream of. |
Leave me alone. I’m a libertarian.
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If Twitter will branch into video with a emphasis on streaming it has an opportunity to eat the lunch of YouTube, Twitch and all of the rest that have been infected with ideology over supporting content creators free expression.
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...did you just post a picture of a dude festooned with vestigial dicks? - John_Wayne777
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Originally Posted By ScaryBlackGuns: If Twitter will branch into video with a emphasis on streaming it has an opportunity to eat the lunch of YouTube, Twitch and all of the rest that have been infected with ideology over supporting content creators free expression. View Quote At least a dent in their market. That said, Twitter needs to keep a deeper bench of advertisers though. Which may be harder since the money-makers are all woke garbage peddlers. Unless Twitter becomes a platform of the little guys, and smaller businesses get a chance to advertise without millions of dollars required per year. |
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Sir (Username Redacted), charter member Knights of Wonder
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Originally Posted By ScaryBlackGuns: If Twitter will branch into video with a emphasis on streaming it has an opportunity to eat the lunch of YouTube, Twitch and all of the rest that have been infected with ideology over supporting content creators free expression. View Quote It would be awesome if Elon bought Rumble. |
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Originally Posted By ludder093: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsmkzSMyXQM View Quote Jack ass Biden done pissed off the wrong person |
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Take it easy and if it's easy take it twice
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Originally Posted By RattleCanAR: Rumble just can’t get traction. I have an account and follow UR along with others but the views for them are nothing. Twitter has an established user group and will garner them followers that Rumble can only dream of. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By RattleCanAR: Originally Posted By SC4eyes: Two of the three are on RUMBLE too. Rumble just can’t get traction. I have an account and follow UR along with others but the views for them are nothing. Twitter has an established user group and will garner them followers that Rumble can only dream of. It is very difficult to browse RUMBLE to find related content. |
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Do bears bear? Do bees be?
'Cause you ugly and Yo Mama dresses you FUNKAY!!! |
Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: But since they're not verifying identities any more to get that precious blue check how will Twitter know who is real or not? Or is someone just upset that so many people changed their name to elon musk to make fun of him? Free speech indeed. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: Originally Posted By Chokey:
But since they're not verifying identities any more to get that precious blue check how will Twitter know who is real or not? Or is someone just upset that so many people changed their name to elon musk to make fun of him? Free speech indeed. Oh my |
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Originally Posted By LatentUser: At least a dent in their market. That said, Twitter needs to keep a deeper bench of advertisers though. Which may be harder since the money-makers are all woke garbage peddlers. Unless Twitter becomes a platform of the little guys, and smaller businesses get a chance to advertise without millions of dollars required per year. View Quote Advertisers will only stay away for so long. If the eyes are there, the advertisers will ultimately follow. |
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...did you just post a picture of a dude festooned with vestigial dicks? - John_Wayne777
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Originally Posted By ScaryBlackGuns: If Twitter will branch into video with a emphasis on streaming it has an opportunity to eat the lunch of YouTube, Twitch and all of the rest that have been infected with ideology over supporting content creators free expression. View Quote I don't know how much it will affect Twitch. I think that's a different crowd entirely from YouTube and Rumble users. |
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Originally Posted By SC4eyes: It is very difficult to browse RUMBLE to find related content. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By SC4eyes: Originally Posted By RattleCanAR: Originally Posted By SC4eyes: Two of the three are on RUMBLE too. Rumble just can’t get traction. I have an account and follow UR along with others but the views for them are nothing. Twitter has an established user group and will garner them followers that Rumble can only dream of. It is very difficult to browse RUMBLE to find related content. That's the problem I had the couple times I tried it. |
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But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don't always come true |
Originally Posted By Obo2: Successfully tested is not the same as a constellation with enough of them to beat the latency of existing cable by utilizing the difference in the speed of light in a (near) vacuum vs an undersea cable... I don't think that will be fully online till starship starts getting up a good number of starlink v2 View Quote They're already online as we speak, and being used to serve content to regular old Skynet customers. Check the starlink thread. |
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Originally Posted By LatentUser: At least a dent in their market. That said, Twitter needs to keep a deeper bench of advertisers though. Which may be harder since the money-makers are all woke garbage peddlers. Unless Twitter becomes a platform of the little guys, and smaller businesses get a chance to advertise without millions of dollars required per year. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By LatentUser: Originally Posted By ScaryBlackGuns: If Twitter will branch into video with a emphasis on streaming it has an opportunity to eat the lunch of YouTube, Twitch and all of the rest that have been infected with ideology over supporting content creators free expression. At least a dent in their market. That said, Twitter needs to keep a deeper bench of advertisers though. Which may be harder since the money-makers are all woke garbage peddlers. Unless Twitter becomes a platform of the little guys, and smaller businesses get a chance to advertise without millions of dollars required per year. You think his 44 billion dollar purchase is a mutha fucking game and he hasn’t thought of that to turn it profitable? Ha! Musk so stupid! |
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Originally Posted By RSG:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhFA3mAaUAEdqlr?format=jpg&name=900x900 View Quote I'm really not surprised, but everyone seems to be missing why he told people to vote Republican. He doesn't want the Republican party to make sweeping changes. He merely wants them to prevent the Democrats from making sweeping changes. He's literally telling people to vote for a stalemate, but nobody seems to get it. His advice to vote Republican really is as "politically neutral" as it gets. Here it is again, for those who may have missed it: Attached File |
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Originally Posted By RSG:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhFA3mAaUAEdqlr?format=jpg&name=900x900 View Quote what a bunch of twats |
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Take it easy and if it's easy take it twice
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Originally Posted By ConcernedCitizen: I'm really not surprised, but everyone seems to be missing why he told people to vote Republican. He doesn't want the Republican party to make sweeping changes. He merely wants them to prevent the Democrats from making sweeping changes. He's literally telling people to vote for a stalemate, but nobody seems to get it. His advice to vote Republican really is as "politically neutral" as it gets. Here it is again, for those who may have missed it: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/72701/05362721e13799d5_jpg-2591100_jpeg-2592909.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ConcernedCitizen: Originally Posted By RSG:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhFA3mAaUAEdqlr?format=jpg&name=900x900 I'm really not surprised, but everyone seems to be missing why he told people to vote Republican. He doesn't want the Republican party to make sweeping changes. He merely wants them to prevent the Democrats from making sweeping changes. He's literally telling people to vote for a stalemate, but nobody seems to get it. His advice to vote Republican really is as "politically neutral" as it gets. Here it is again, for those who may have missed it: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/72701/05362721e13799d5_jpg-2591100_jpeg-2592909.JPG Yes and I'm sure he's loving the high price of gas as well. |
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"I miss the days of being able to shoot all commies" G.B.
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Originally Posted By akethan: Yes and I'm sure he's loving the high price of gas as well. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By akethan: Originally Posted By ConcernedCitizen: Originally Posted By RSG:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhFA3mAaUAEdqlr?format=jpg&name=900x900 I'm really not surprised, but everyone seems to be missing why he told people to vote Republican. He doesn't want the Republican party to make sweeping changes. He merely wants them to prevent the Democrats from making sweeping changes. He's literally telling people to vote for a stalemate, but nobody seems to get it. His advice to vote Republican really is as "politically neutral" as it gets. Here it is again, for those who may have missed it: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/72701/05362721e13799d5_jpg-2591100_jpeg-2592909.JPG Yes and I'm sure he's loving the high price of gas as well. The high price of natural gas doesn't help his bottom line, with respect to SpaceX. The benefit to EVs is only when electricity cost is low too. |
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"we have no idea what that even is" Attached File |
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Originally Posted By ConcernedCitizen: I'm really not surprised, but everyone seems to be missing why he told people to vote Republican. He doesn't want the Republican party to make sweeping changes. He merely wants them to prevent the Democrats from making sweeping changes. He's literally telling people to vote for a stalemate, but nobody seems to get it. His advice to vote Republican really is as "politically neutral" as it gets. Here it is again, for those who may have missed it: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/72701/05362721e13799d5_jpg-2591100_jpeg-2592909.JPG View Quote Stalemate is best mate. NO NEW LAWS. Only erasers. |
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Potentate plenipotentiary sans portfolio
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" If govt parsimony is economic madness, and debt-fuelled govt spending a recipe for riches, why aren't the Greeks bailing out the Germans?"
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Originally Posted By UtahShotgunner: ????? I have never had any trouble reading Twitter without a login. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By UtahShotgunner: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Twitter again readable without login? ????? I have never had any trouble reading Twitter without a login. Tell us you've never used twitter without telling us. |
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Originally Posted By Zam18th:
"we have no idea what that even is" /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/Jennifer-Lawrence-ok-thumbs-up_zps5c0357b9_GIF-103.gif View Quote Yeah, I just pulled up their privacy policy. It looks like every other social network's. They collect your data and you have to agree to this to use their website. https://www.tribel.com/privacy Lets see if they'll block me. |
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Originally Posted By Palm: Major corporations that employ adults. This isn’t the 7th grade. When the cuts come down, the company keeps the most effective employees. You choose whether you want to be kicked off the island. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Palm: Originally Posted By PointBlank82: Originally Posted By Palm: Originally Posted By Nexttime: They know who the good coders are and they certainly know who the rock star coders are. There was an internal system inside of Twitter that could be used by ANY twitter employee to flag posts and censor people, I'll bet money that the people who used that system the most were moved higher up on the fire list regardless of their coding ability. A decent coder that kept their head down and didn't dog pile into political censoring still has their job. This bears repeating. It is applicable to ANY JOB during a recession. Treat the break room like it is infected with a deadly virus. Be on time, go for a brisk walk during your lunch hour, don’t drink 24 hours prior showing up for work, get at least 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep before coming to work, develop a passion for accomplishing the task, use the restroom prior to getting to work or after work, smile, be polite, dress professionally, and keep your head down. If you do these things you won’t get kicked off the island. Jesus Christ, what kind of fucking horrible work environments have you worked for? Fuck all that noise. Major corporations that employ adults. This isn’t the 7th grade. When the cuts come down, the company keeps the most effective employees. You choose whether you want to be kicked off the island. LOL, I have worked at shitty places too, not quite that bad though. I don't work there anymore and make more money with better benefits. I am not going to spend 40+ hours working with people I don't like or at a place I hate. Life is far to short for that. Back to this thread, I have done 12+ days but I would not do that as a "normal" day for long. Presumably the IT people at Twitter could find a new position fairly quickly. |
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Originally Posted By giantpune: Yeah, I just pulled up their privacy policy. It looks like every other social network's. They collect your data and you have to agree to this to use their website. https://www.tribel.com/privacy Lets see if they'll block me. https://iili.io/pt3rrv.png View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By giantpune: Originally Posted By Zam18th:
"we have no idea what that even is" /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/Jennifer-Lawrence-ok-thumbs-up_zps5c0357b9_GIF-103.gif Yeah, I just pulled up their privacy policy. It looks like every other social network's. They collect your data and you have to agree to this to use their website. https://www.tribel.com/privacy Lets see if they'll block me. https://iili.io/pt3rrv.png Something something if it’s free, you’re the product. |
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Originally Posted By ConcernedCitizen: "Being seen as" is the problem, and why bad management often favors poor employees over productive ones. Joe Sixpack shows up to work half an hour early every day, but spends that time drinking coffee and reading the paper, then spends the last hour of each day "cleaning up", and always leaves right on time, regardless of how work work there is left to do. He is somehow viewed as the model employee for merely showing up early every day, and his actual productivity is rarely, if ever, factored into this perception. Meanwhile, another coworker doesn't start work until 9:00 am, but always stays an extra hour or two late every day making sure everything is done before they leave, and their productivity is twice what Joe Sixpack's is. Even though they are the better employee, they are looked down upon because bad managers only see them coming in "late" every day, and never see the additional hours they put in after the manager leaves for the day. I've personally seen this situation play out multiple times. Employees should be evaluated on actual productivity, not perceived productivity. Merely being present for work should never be the determining factor in evaluating this, but often is. I'm guessing Elon already knows who's doing the actual work, and who's just putting in hours to appear like they're working. Those who show up early just to stand around drinking coffee should be worried, and rightfully so. Those who are productive, regardless of how they are "being seen as", are often very confident in their position because they know their productivity speaks for itself. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ConcernedCitizen: Originally Posted By LurkerII: Originally Posted By spidey07: Start another thread. This attitude is only taken by people who offer zero value other than “I show up” It’s a sign of supreme incompetence and produce nothing. So scared to lose their job they rely on “showing up everyday” as the only thing they have to contribute. Start your own thread. Being the hardest worker, and being seen as the hardest worker keeps you from getting laid off in hard times, period. Worked many high level jobs in hard times? Which one am I going to fire? The person I see working hard at their desk all the time, or goofing off in the break room all the time? "Being seen as" is the problem, and why bad management often favors poor employees over productive ones. Joe Sixpack shows up to work half an hour early every day, but spends that time drinking coffee and reading the paper, then spends the last hour of each day "cleaning up", and always leaves right on time, regardless of how work work there is left to do. He is somehow viewed as the model employee for merely showing up early every day, and his actual productivity is rarely, if ever, factored into this perception. Meanwhile, another coworker doesn't start work until 9:00 am, but always stays an extra hour or two late every day making sure everything is done before they leave, and their productivity is twice what Joe Sixpack's is. Even though they are the better employee, they are looked down upon because bad managers only see them coming in "late" every day, and never see the additional hours they put in after the manager leaves for the day. I've personally seen this situation play out multiple times. Employees should be evaluated on actual productivity, not perceived productivity. Merely being present for work should never be the determining factor in evaluating this, but often is. I'm guessing Elon already knows who's doing the actual work, and who's just putting in hours to appear like they're working. Those who show up early just to stand around drinking coffee should be worried, and rightfully so. Those who are productive, regardless of how they are "being seen as", are often very confident in their position because they know their productivity speaks for itself. One positive thing coming out of the whole work from home thing is managers are being forced to evaluate people based on what the actual accomplish not on if they look busy at their desk for enough hours per day. |
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Originally Posted By kill-9: Musk has talked admiringly about WeChat. I imagine he has some similar unified app in mind. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By kill-9: Originally Posted By Zam18th: Yup, people don't realize the magnitude of his plans yet. IMO, if things go right we're watching the construction of an empire. SpaceX- self explanatory, and Starship can be a game changer for space manufacturing and/or a space economy. Starlink - satellite internet that can function as it's own standalone internet. Tesla - AI, cars, robots, batteries, solar, mining Twitter/X.com - will evolve into an everything app that encompasses social media, journalism and micropayments, youtube/tiktok/patreon/twitch capability with monetization, onlyfans/pron, secure messaging/voice/video, zoom capabilities, along with his X.com vision of a massive financial institution that will handle things like payment processing, bank accounts, transfers, micropayments, crypto, stock trading. And being able to pipe TwitterX directly into Starlink will make a shitload of people worried and angry once they realize what he's doing. You're going to start seeing "anti-trust" and "too much power" tossed around by the same people in gov who never said a word about google. |
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Elon Musk sells at least $3.95 billion worth of Tesla shares after Twitter deal
Key Points Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold additional shares of his electric car company after closing a $44 billion purchase of Twitter. Musk closed the deal on Oct. 28, with equity and debt financing from a wide range of friends and institutions. Before he sold shares today, Elon Musk owned about 25% of Tesla between stock and options. Elon Musk has sold at least another $3.95 billion worth of shares in his electric car company Tesla after closing his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission published Tuesday, Musk sold 19.5 million more shares of Tesla. Musk sold almost $22 billion worth of Tesla shares in 2021, a year when the stock jumped over 50%. This year, he sold over $8 billion worth of stock in April and roughly $7 billion worth in August. In addition to pouring billions of his own capital into taking Twitter private, the Tesla CEO relied on partners, including equity investors Binance, Ron Baron’s BAMCO, Andreessen Horowitz, Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, to finance the deal, or to roll their existing shares into his holding company for Twitter. At the time, Musk was still battling the social media company in court to try to get out of the deal — which he proposed and agreed to in April. Since closing the purchase, Musk has pulled dozens of Tesla engineers to Twitter to assist him with code review and other work. Compared to the Nasdaq Composite which has declined about 33% year to date, Tesla shares are off 46%, wiping out a big chunk of Musk’s fortune. However, he’s still the world’s richest person with a net worth of close to $200 billion, according to Forbes. At a conference last week, Musk told hedge fund manager Ron Baron that his “workload went up from about, I don’t know, 78 hours a week to probably 120.” Musk, who’s also CEO of SpaceX, said on stage that “once Twitter is set on the right path, I think it is a much easier thing to manage” than his other companies. Musk hasn’t said who will be the new CEO of Twitter, but he’s suggested that his role as “Chief Twit” and sole director at the company is only temporary. Link |
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Originally Posted By realwar: Elon Musk sells at least $3.95 billion worth of Tesla shares after Twitter deal Key Points Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold additional shares of his electric car company after closing a $44 billion purchase of Twitter. Musk closed the deal on Oct. 28, with equity and debt financing from a wide range of friends and institutions. Before he sold shares today, Elon Musk owned about 25% of Tesla between stock and options. Elon Musk has sold at least another $3.95 billion worth of shares in his electric car company Tesla after closing his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission published Tuesday, Musk sold 19.5 million more shares of Tesla. Musk sold almost $22 billion worth of Tesla shares in 2021, a year when the stock jumped over 50%. This year, he sold over $8 billion worth of stock in April and roughly $7 billion worth in August. In addition to pouring billions of his own capital into taking Twitter private, the Tesla CEO relied on partners, including equity investors Binance, Ron Baron’s BAMCO, Andreessen Horowitz, Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, to finance the deal, or to roll their existing shares into his holding company for Twitter. At the time, Musk was still battling the social media company in court to try to get out of the deal — which he proposed and agreed to in April. Since closing the purchase, Musk has pulled dozens of Tesla engineers to Twitter to assist him with code review and other work. Compared to the Nasdaq Composite which has declined about 33% year to date, Tesla shares are off 46%, wiping out a big chunk of Musk’s fortune. However, he’s still the world’s richest person with a net worth of close to $200 billion, according to Forbes. At a conference last week, Musk told hedge fund manager Ron Baron that his “workload went up from about, I don’t know, 78 hours a week to probably 120.” Musk, who’s also CEO of SpaceX, said on stage that “once Twitter is set on the right path, I think it is a much easier thing to manage” than his other companies. Musk hasn’t said who will be the new CEO of Twitter, but he’s suggested that his role as “Chief Twit” and sole director at the company is only temporary. Link View Quote that's how he pays his taxes for his stock options. |
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Potentate plenipotentiary sans portfolio
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Originally Posted By BSWilson: Tell us you've never used twitter without telling us. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By BSWilson: Originally Posted By UtahShotgunner: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Twitter again readable without login? ????? I have never had any trouble reading Twitter without a login. Tell us you've never used twitter without telling us. Wrong. Do not have an account, but read dozens of accounts and Tweets everyday. Detailed above. Click "Log In" and then "X" out. Apparently you are the one who is not Twitter savvy |
" If govt parsimony is economic madness, and debt-fuelled govt spending a recipe for riches, why aren't the Greeks bailing out the Germans?"
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Originally Posted By spidey07: If musk follows through on making Twitter a true free speech platform, the technology town square, I will suck your dick. And make sure it’s shown on Twitter. That’s my promise to you and our country. No homo. But If that’s what it takes to rid this fucking communist tool…then I’ll do my duty View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By spidey07: Originally Posted By Fourays2: Originally Posted By NunyaBidness: Is it me, or does it feel like we slipped back into the "good" timeline, maybe back in the spring. RvW got overturned, Twitter is getting sold to a free speech absolutist, NYSRPA case went about as good as it could, the left is going to get buttfucked at the polls in two weeks. Feels good man. let's not start sucking each others dicks just yet If musk follows through on making Twitter a true free speech platform, the technology town square, I will suck your dick. And make sure it’s shown on Twitter. That’s my promise to you and our country. No homo. But If that’s what it takes to rid this fucking communist tool…then I’ll do my duty Has this video been posted yet? I don’t want to watch it, but I want to know that promises were kept. |
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So, how did Twitter do last night? Wasn't checking it.
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Sir (Username Redacted), charter member Knights of Wonder
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/technology/twitter-payments-business.html Twitter Files Paperwork to Enter Payments Business Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, has been looking for ways to generate more revenue at the social media company. By Kate Conger Nov. 9, 2022, 11:19 a.m. ET SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk’s Twitter may be getting into the payments business. The social media company last week filed registration paperwork to pave the way for it to process payments, according to a filing with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, which was obtained by The New York Times. The move comes as Mr. Musk seeks to transform Twitter after purchasing the company last month for $44 billion. Mr. Musk has moved rapidly to overhaul the social media service, laying off half its work force last week and adding subscription features to boost revenue. A self described “free speech absolutist,” the billionaire has also said he would roll back many of Twitter’s content rules, though he has changed nothing yet and plans to form a council to help make those decisions. Businesses that conduct money transfers, exchange currency or cash checks are required to register with FinCEN, and to report suspicious transactions to the agency. A FinCEN spokeswoman said the agency does not comment on specific businesses. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Turning Twitter into a payments processor would be a return of sorts for Mr. Musk to his early days in the tech industry. In 1999, he helped found X.com, an online bank that later became the digital payments company PayPal. Mr. Musk, 51, has often mused about incorporating payments into Twitter, saying he planned to transform the social media service into an “everything app.” The everything app would be modeled after WeChat, a Chinese social media platform that includes instant messaging and mobile payments, Mr. Musk has said. In China, WeChat, which is owned by Tencent, is used by more than a billion people to find news, hail cabs and order food. Before Mr. Musk took the reins at Twitter, the company had dabbled in financial services. Last September, it added a tipping feature that allows users to make small donations to their favorite Twitter creators, using cash or cryptocurrency. It has also let people charge subscription fees for exclusive content, like newsletters, taking a small cut of their earnings. But Twitter lacks sophisticated payments systems, which could generate revenue for the company if Mr. Musk can build them and convince people to use them. The billionaire faces pressure to deliver immediate results at Twitter because he took out $13 billion in loans to finance the deal, which will require the company to pay more than $1 billion in interest annually. To drum up revenue, Mr. Musk and his advisers have discussed allowing users to pay a fee in order to send a direct message to celebrities on the platform; adding “paywalled” videos; and charging users $8 per month to receive a coveted verification check mark on their profiles. |
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Originally Posted By Chokey:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/technology/twitter-payments-business.html Twitter Files Paperwork to Enter Payments Business Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, has been looking for ways to generate more revenue at the social media company. By Kate Conger Nov. 9, 2022, 11:19 a.m. ET SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk’s Twitter may be getting into the payments business. The social media company last week filed registration paperwork to pave the way for it to process payments, according to a filing with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, which was obtained by The New York Times. The move comes as Mr. Musk seeks to transform Twitter after purchasing the company last month for $44 billion. Mr. Musk has moved rapidly to overhaul the social media service, laying off half its work force last week and adding subscription features to boost revenue. A self described “free speech absolutist,” the billionaire has also said he would roll back many of Twitter’s content rules, though he has changed nothing yet and plans to form a council to help make those decisions. Businesses that conduct money transfers, exchange currency or cash checks are required to register with FinCEN, and to report suspicious transactions to the agency. A FinCEN spokeswoman said the agency does not comment on specific businesses. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Turning Twitter into a payments processor would be a return of sorts for Mr. Musk to his early days in the tech industry. In 1999, he helped found X.com, an online bank that later became the digital payments company PayPal. Mr. Musk, 51, has often mused about incorporating payments into Twitter, saying he planned to transform the social media service into an “everything app.” The everything app would be modeled after WeChat, a Chinese social media platform that includes instant messaging and mobile payments, Mr. Musk has said. In China, WeChat, which is owned by Tencent, is used by more than a billion people to find news, hail cabs and order food. Before Mr. Musk took the reins at Twitter, the company had dabbled in financial services. Last September, it added a tipping feature that allows users to make small donations to their favorite Twitter creators, using cash or cryptocurrency. It has also let people charge subscription fees for exclusive content, like newsletters, taking a small cut of their earnings. But Twitter lacks sophisticated payments systems, which could generate revenue for the company if Mr. Musk can build them and convince people to use them. The billionaire faces pressure to deliver immediate results at Twitter because he took out $13 billion in loans to finance the deal, which will require the company to pay more than $1 billion in interest annually. To drum up revenue, Mr. Musk and his advisers have discussed allowing users to pay a fee in order to send a direct message to celebrities on the platform; adding “paywalled” videos; and charging users $8 per month to receive a coveted verification check mark on their profiles. View Quote Attached File It's_Happening.gif |
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Elon Musk fans have created a 30-foot long monument to their hero. The tech billionaire recently bought Twitter
It's the brainchild of cryptocurrency firm Elon GOAT Token ($EGT), who later this month plan to present it to the billionaire at his Tesla workplace in Austin, Texas Elon Musk fans have created a 30-foot long monument to their hero. The $600,000 piece sees the billionaire's head atop the body of a goat and riding a rocket. GOAT is often used as an acronym for Greatest Of All Time. Video Full Story |
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Originally Posted By realwar: Elon Musk fans have created a 30-foot long monument to their hero. The tech billionaire recently bought Twitter https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/11/09/16/64368053-11408375-image-m-23_1668011542887.jpg It's the brainchild of cryptocurrency firm Elon GOAT Token ($EGT), who later this month plan to present it to the billionaire at his Tesla workplace in Austin, Texas https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/11/09/16/64368049-11408375-image-m-24_1668011574536.jpg https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/11/09/16/64368059-11408375-image-a-16_1668011094700.jpg Elon Musk fans have created a 30-foot long monument to their hero. The $600,000 piece sees the billionaire's head atop the body of a goat and riding a rocket. GOAT is often used as an acronym for Greatest Of All Time. Video Full Story View Quote Who the hell decided that was worth $600k? |
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