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Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: RgrF
Date: May 13, 2022 05:32AM
Seems he may not have anticipated that the cost of acquisition would crash Tesla stock price and maybe send him into the bond market. The decline of his crypto venture probably didn't help.

Elon Musk said his $44 billion bid to purchase Twitter was “temporarily on hold” until he could get more details to confirm that spam and fake accounts represent less than 5 percent of the social network’s total users




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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: Tiangou
Date: May 13, 2022 06:38AM
Also, several governments are looking into his ties with the Saudis after it was revealed that he was getting much of the funding from Alwaleed bin Talal.

But let's just say it's about the fake accounts.


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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: pdq
Date: May 13, 2022 06:46AM


…to find out that there are fake accounts on Twitter!



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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: May 13, 2022 06:50AM
Musk is clueless enough to think that people will believe the fake account bs.
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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: pRICE cUBE
Date: May 13, 2022 08:27AM
The bot excuse is as real as Musk’s current hair.

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Musk is clueless enough to think that people will believe the fake account bs.


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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: May 13, 2022 09:13AM
The only thing I know for sure about this whole Twitter fiasco was that from the outset it was not well thought out and planned. This particular issue/risk was pointed out by my brother and a couple of other Tesla fans right from the beginning (strangely people like Rob Maurer and Dave Lee remained silent on it).
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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: samintx
Date: May 13, 2022 09:15AM
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pdq


…to find out that there are fake accounts on Twitter!

Perfect graphic for the story ! CNBC EXPLAINED TODAY HOW HE COULD GET HUGE CAPITAL LOSSES
And reduce the price. Who cares? Not me.



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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: chopper
Date: May 13, 2022 11:03AM
Musk is awesome. Anything that strikes fear into the snowflakes is a positive development.

I have a friend who was nearly bald in the 1990s. Now, with chemicals and other strategies, he has almost a full head of hair.
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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: August West
Date: May 13, 2022 12:10PM
It's unfair to Musk, but at this point the first phrase that appeared in my mind was "Stable Genius."


“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in."
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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: $tevie
Date: May 13, 2022 12:20PM
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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: jonny
Date: May 13, 2022 12:29PM
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Let the choking begin.
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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: May 13, 2022 02:04PM
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chopper
Musk is awesome. Anything that strikes fear into the snowflakes is a positive development.

I have a friend who was nearly bald in the 1990s. Now, with chemicals and other strategies, he has almost a full head of hair.

Jumping on the bandwagon there chopper? Was not long ago you guys hated him for believing in climate change and and building EV’s. Hey, if this is what it takes for you to embrace both, then jump on board!
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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: Speedy
Date: May 13, 2022 02:19PM
He’s way too impulsive for his own good. He let that ‘richest man in the world’ go to his heads.


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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: May 13, 2022 02:24PM
What worries me is he’s not usually impulsive when it comes to strategic business decisions. The fact that he was so with Twitter is concerning. I fear this may be hubris that comes from lack of any major failure so far, and the invincibility (seemingly) that results from it.
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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: JoeM
Date: May 13, 2022 09:09PM
However this turns out I can’t help but feel there is a train wreck in the cards for this guy in the future.


JoeM
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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: May 13, 2022 11:01PM
Having watched Musk for a long while, this Twitter fiasco is really his first misstep. Hope it’s not a sign of things to come.
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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: Speedy
Date: May 14, 2022 05:42AM
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Having watched Musk for a long while, this Twitter fiasco is really his first misstep. Hope it’s not a sign of things to come.

Hmmm, he has others like having a buyer for $420.


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Re: Musk misses the mark - Twitter deal on hold
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: May 14, 2022 08:03AM
That’s more like a short term tactical mistake. Not something long-term and strategic that posed a significant risk of derailing all his other efforts. Put it to you this way, when that happened and Tesla’s stock was plunging, I was buying, and had no doubt about Tesla‘s future.
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