The value of his purchase of all that billions was essentially:
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The userbase
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The branding
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The software and the people that built it
Now that got rid of all three… Wasn’t it 100x cheaper to just buy parler? Or just hire a single developer on Fiverr and start a defederated mastodon server
Either he’s a raving idiot or someone was paying him to destroy Twitter. Or both.
I doubt anyone could pay the man enough to blow 40 billion to tank a website. The moment you break something, the users will find a replacement and go there. This purchase was 100% ego. It changed no minds about Elon. His fanboys will still call this genius, and those who already knew he was a manchild are not suddenly thinking this was a mature, well-thought-out plan.
We seem to forget this whole “Imma buy Twitter” was, in part, because Twitter refused to disable the account of the kid that was tracking his jet
If the goal was just to shut down twitter that could have been accomplished day 1. My theory is he really didn’t think he’d be stuck paying the high price he offered and now his goal is to file for bankruptcy after tanking the company, and to do it he has to look like hes trying to make it work.
Alternatively. He really is this big an idiot. It would be in line with the moron making an offer twitter couldn’t refuse and then being surprised when they accepted
