No social media company has allowed independent verification the total number of active users… it’s something I’ve asked for. Musk using it as an excuse to back out of (or put on hold) the sale feels like… well… an excuse. He’s jerking them around, and he’s losing a lot of people’s money and costing a lot of people their jobs in the process.
In other words, he’s clearly gearing up to run for president… and I’m very afraid he’s going to win. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-social-media-64b8534f53aa0213fbfd2245bacd6109 On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 2:17 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I have semi-seriously thought that whatever was in the pot Rogan convinced > Musk to smoke on Rogan's podcast nudged Musk fully into the weird, > occasionally self-sabotaging activity that's marked the last few years for > him. > > Musk has done some very beneficial things, and I think both SpaceX and > Tesla will be net positives as companies. (Starlink sounds like it could > be as well.) But past business success has never been a guarantee of > future business acumen, or even common sense. > > David > > On Thursday, April 14, 2022, 02:10:39 PM PDT, Kevin M. < > drunkbastar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Setting aside for a moment Musk’s history of saying and doing things in a > blatant attempt to affect stock prices (which he has done to amuse himself, > even though the result sometimes is a personal financial loss to he and his > friends), for him to become the sole private owner of Twitter makes him > liable for everything posted on Twitter. He would spend the rest of his > life (and fortune) fighting civil suits. Hell, I’d consider suing him over > my Grammy nominated stalker’s continued presence on Twitter, when she was > suspended from the network for (among other things) personally threatening > me, yet was able to freely create multiple accounts in her own (stage) > name, in so doing violating Twitter’s TOS. > > I genuinely believe Musk is punking Twitter… but I don’t yet see what his > end game is. > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 1:53 PM M-D November <mdnovem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And now, of course, this is happening. > > https://deadline.com/2022/04/elon-musk-offers-41-4bn-to-buy-twitter-1235002295/ > > > > On Monday, April 11, 2022 at 10:34:17 PM UTC-4 Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > > Musk deleted some of his weekend Tweets. Too bad he didn’t just delete his > account. > > > https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/business/money-report/elon-musk-deletes-tweets-critical-of-twitter-after-weekend-barrage/2867476/?_osource=SocialFlowFB_LABrand&fbclid=IwAR2SbQdgrfK806E483dKTDb2WPhlPklfzeK4of_Zi9rw3uhmvhx3bYEImjg > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 5:44 AM Doug Eastick <eas...@eastick.ca> wrote: > > I don't have much of an opinion on the guy other than "often very > different". However, his Starlink internet service, which I use is > freaking amazing both from a performance and implementation* standpoint. > > implementation* -- there's a 1000 freaking satellites flying overhead and > every few minutes my Dishy connects from one to the other and maintains > ~60 ms latency to the internet.- (image legend: > * blue dots - satellites > * orange - ground base stations connected to internet via fibre > * green/yellow circle - my Dishy > * green ellipse - field of view of my Dishy > * dotted lines - possible Line of Sight connections from satellite to my > Dishy or ground station. > > image complements of starlink.sx > > > [image: image.png] > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 11:53 PM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After spending the weekend Tweeting nonsensical ideas about the social > media network, he was offered a seat on the board, but he refused. > > > https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1513354622466867201?s=21&t=vOQsiQaoLcre0pfPrVdVAg > > This is going to blow up like a SpaceX rocket or a Tesla battery. > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1716741620.5709.1649971052697%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1716741620.5709.1649971052697%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4B24StbXUgGyBR6_A62VQur%3De4f%3DTP3dWbBNyi%2BsY%2BuuA%40mail.gmail.com.
