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Musk Plans to Go Ahead With Twitter Purchase at $54.20 a Share​

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla (AP)
Tuesday, 04 October 2022 12:32 PM EDT








Billionaire Elon Musk is proposing to go ahead with his original offer of $54.20 to take Twitter Inc private, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, sending the shares of the social media firm surging.
Twitter shares jumped 12.7% at $47.93 before trading was halted for the second time, while Tesla Inc., the electric vehicle company that Musk heads, fell about 3%.
Musk made the proposal in a letter to Twitter, Bloomberg reported, citing people who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information.
Twitter and Musk's lawyers were not immediately available for requests for comment from Reuters.
The news comes ahead of a highly anticipated faceoff between Musk and Twitter at Delaware's Court of Chancery on Oct. 17, in which the social media company was set to seek an order directing Musk to close the deal at $54.20 per share.
Musk agreed in April to buy Twitter for $44 billion, but within weeks said the number of bot accounts was much higher than Twitter's estimate of less than 5% of users.

 

[brantb]

I really wonder what sort of game he is playing with twitter. I also wonder if he picked up more shares along the way at a deflated price or some call options or something.

 

[nahmus]

I really hope he does buy twitter and open everything up. The crying from the left might rival the night trump was elected.

 

[Juztyn00]

I really hope he does buy twitter and open everything up. The crying from the left might rival the night trump was elected.

I'm hoping he locks it and puts up a "down for maintenance" page for a week or so before the election just to see everyone running around like their hair is on fire.

 

[subybaja]

Get us to the safety of space.

Exactly. Backup to the cloud, before a crash.

 

[scooter2374]

He wanted to charge .1 doge coin to retweet or tweet something I read the other day, that would be funny as fuck.

 

[Thatg9659]

Exactly. Backup to the cloud, before a crash.

Sounds good until the evil robot program was never programmed to go back

 

[Wades_76_cj7]

Lol now they are worried he will affect the midterms if he follows thru on the deal to buy Twatter! LOL

Media worries as Elon Musk closes deal to buy Twitter: 'Be afraid, be actually afraid'

Media reporters and journalists attacked the news that billionaire CEO Elon Musk is closing his deal to officially buy Twitter after announcing it in April.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Void_of_Light]

Lol now they are worried he will affect the midterms if he follows thru on the deal to buy Twatter! LOL

Media worries as Elon Musk closes deal to buy Twitter: 'Be afraid, be actually afraid'

Media reporters and journalists attacked the news that billionaire CEO Elon Musk is closing his deal to officially buy Twitter after announcing it in April.

www.foxnews.com

Pretty sure they claimed that blocking people from social media had no ability to affect elections?

SCOTUS is poised to rule on their 230 protections this term too. Could get interesting.

 

[ExWrench]

Pretty sure they claimed that blocking people from social media had no ability to affect elections?

This is different - this affects them.

 

[gunracer1]

i read a bunch of the replies, they are fucking scared as fuck. i bet half of the replies are fake accounts.

 

[ExWrench]

i read a bunch of the replies, they are fucking scared as fuck.

If uncensored free speech scares people, they deserve to be unhappy.

i bet half of the replies are fake accounts.

Sheepbotrepeater.sorosshadowgov.commie

 

[Void_of_Light]

i read a bunch of the replies, they are fucking scared as fuck. i bet half of the replies are fake accounts.

Its obvious on Facebook. One of the clickbait movie things pops up and it has 2.5k comments. 99.5% of the comments are pretty much all the same saying how much they loved the movie using not quite right English. The comments are always generic and could be used for nearly every movie ever made. I'm pretty sure they make a couple actual comments and then let their bots use machine learning or something to reply based off the original comments.

The same thing happens on big political discussions, although I think the bot count is a bit lower, maybe 75%

 

[nahmus]

I'm hoping he locks it and puts up a "down for maintenance" page for a week or so before the election just to see everyone running around like their hair is on fire.

This is different - this affects them.

Thats why jan 6th is ending up in jail terms and BLM riots did not.

 

[XtremeJ]

Liberals biggest fear is that Musk /Twitter will no longer censor conservative speech.

 

[ExWrench]

Liberals biggest fear is that Musk /Twitter will no longer censor conservative speech.

No shit

Imagine the "horror" of having to argue lib. views based on merit - oh, the yuuge manatee

 

[Motorcharge]

Lol now they are worried he will affect the midterms if he follows thru on the deal to buy Twatter! LOL

Media worries as Elon Musk closes deal to buy Twitter: 'Be afraid, be actually afraid'

Media reporters and journalists attacked the news that billionaire CEO Elon Musk is closing his deal to officially buy Twitter after announcing it in April.

www.foxnews.com

Fine, you can make the same argument that it affected previous elections. Open investigations into Parag Agrawal immediately.

Fucking insane to see mainstream media clamoring over themselves to limit free speech like it's not the only reason these fucking idiots have a job in the first place. What sway over elections does Twitter have that mainstream media doesn't?

 

[ExWrench]

What sway over elections does Twitter have that mainstream media doesn't?

Not more sway, but a lower barrier to entry - there's nothing on Twatter to keep an average person's message from being heard and resonating based on its merits.

Well, except for massive censorship

For now

 

[Void_of_Light]

He should also make it so they cant delete a tweet after its been up for 5 minutes. Keep them from changing what they said 3 months down the line when its proven to be wrong.

And to show just how progressive and in tune with women's rights he is, he should allow them to post topless pics, just like the guys can. 😁

 

[Motorcharge]

Not more sway, but a lower barrier to entry - there's nothing on Twatter to keep an average person's message from being heard and resonating based on its merits.

Well, except for massive censorship

For now

So what? No ones forcing you to use Twitter any more than you're forced to watch CNN. You more access to stupid people's thoughts, doesn't really change anything.

 

[ExWrench]

So what?

So, nothing, I guess. You asked what the difference was, I gave one.

No ones forcing you to use Twitter any more than you're forced to watch CNN.

I don't do either, so I'm glad it's not required.

You more access to stupid people's thoughts, doesn't really change anything.

Regardless, I'm encouraged at the prospect of uncensored discourse. Not my circus, not my monkeys, but it affects the veracity of the "facts" reaching the masses.

 

[bigun]

 

[Thefishguy77]

He should also make it so they cant delete a tweet after its been up for 5 minutes. Keep them from changing what they said 3 months down the line when its proven to be wrong.

And to show just how progressive and in tune with women's rights he is, he should allow them to post topless pics, just like the guys can. 😁

My toxic masculinity supprts this message. Unless they have bad boobs. Then leave them wrapped up please. Gift wrap always helps.

 

[[486]]

Thats why jan 6th is ending up in jail terms and BLM riots did not.

ooh they're finally giving trials to those they gulagged?

wonder if the dumpster defenders will get their day in court next...

 

[Thefishguy77]

So what? No ones forcing you to use Twitter any more than you're forced to watch CNN. You more access to stupid people's thoughts, doesn't really change anything.

It does though. Many conservatives wont even try and join for the censorship is just too much. If they join it will help counter he liberal voice. I probably will join if it goes through just to be a statistic to the left of people who joined after he bought it. Also it has some of the best up to date speculation regarding financial markets and what impacts them.

 

[Thefishguy77]

ooh they're finally giving trials to those they gulagged?

wonder if the dumpster defenders will get their day in court next...

To all of them or just the ones to agree to a plea?

 

[[486]]

To all of them or just the ones to agree to a plea?

oh... :c

 

[95stepside]

He should also make it so they cant delete a tweet after its been up for 5 minutes. Keep them from changing what they said 3 months down the line when its proven to be wrong.

And to show just how progressive and in tune with women's rights he is, he should allow them to post topless pics, just like the guys can. 😁

Twitter is full of literal porn, youre thinking of instagram who hates boobs

 

[Void_of_Light]

Twitter is full of literal porn, youre thinking of instagram who hates boobs

No shit? I figured it was the worst one about nudity.

 

[subybaja]

Twitter is full of literal porn, youre thinking of instagram who hates boobs

Nice link!