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Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted' (www.businessinsider.com)
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[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Musk, surely, did buy Twitter for the power and attention he thought it would give him.

DIsagree. He was trying to do one of his many pump-and-dumps and he fucked around and got found out.

[โ€“] Intralexical@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fair. He talked about buying Twitter for the power and attention he meant to get from talking about it, both from the cryptobro fans and also any shady financial shenanigans. But he didn't actually mean to go through with paying for it.