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[–] RouxFou@dormi.zone 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

With the way he's running this, I'm a bit confused as to why he didn't just buy Truth Social directly. Wouldn't have cost him nearly as much.

[–] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He bought the users. Elon knows that people are lazy and will not change websites.

[–] Anomandaris@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

-50% ad revenue says otherwise

[–] Arakwar@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Twitter could have 200% more users, if no one want to show them ads, then ad spots will be dirt cheap. Printing 5 millions of 1cent ads vs 1 million of 10cents ads is not the same. Both on income and expenses...

[–] wnose@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

"users" - more than 50% are likely to be bots, LOL

[–] Moohamin12@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Let's be honest Elon doesn't care about Twitter.

He bought it with money he doesn't have. He only increased in net worth since the takeover and has successfully done what he wanted to, destroy an organization he thought was problematic and now everyone gives even more data to Facebook.

Everyone of them won.

[–] JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com 2 points 1 year ago

I think part of it is his own hubris through. His head is so far up his head by now that he though he knew better. It's the same reason why Super Heavy destroyed itself on first launch. He thought he was smarter than his engineers and forced them to go without a proper launchpad.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude could have created his own Mastodon insrance for practically nothing. Is he somehow even dumber than Trump?

[–] CannedTuna@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I think the evidence speaks for itself.

[–] DingleBoone@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still convinced there is money coming in from an outside influence that is paying him to destroy Twitter, and I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing is happening to Reddit as well

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think he thought the "Twitter files" were real and wanted them so he could be the saviour of democracy and the right wing.

[–] rustic_tiddles@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

He wanted to prove he doesn't care about money and is fully willing to throw away $44 billion dollars on a shitpost