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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWow. So Apartheid Elon did it. He killed a major social media platform
All because of his fragile, man-child ego
BWdem4life
(1,664 posts)He had nothing to lose but a couple hunderd billion dollars which he probably figures he can make back.
Initech
(100,068 posts)BootinUp
(47,143 posts)but he isn't just doing this because of his ego. He figures he can affect the makeup of the US government by changing the social media rules and thereby unleash his companies and wealth from government regulation, taxation, etc. He also wants to affect foreign policy.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)This is most certainly because of his ego
Mad_Machine76
(24,412 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)He'll be dead of old age before he got all those things.
That doesn't seem like the best plan.
tinrobot
(10,895 posts)That said, he probably realized he's sitting on a pile of valuable data on Twitter's users, including a lot of powerful people.
The Hunter Biden stuff might be his version of a warning shot.
Cha
(297,190 posts)it.. kicking it in the head.
Soon it will be a Nazi Echo Chamber.
former9thward
(31,997 posts)People are still posting tens of millions of tweets everyday. Including here.
ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)What Musk is accomplishing is a getting lot of free press, a lot of attention
Walleye
(31,017 posts)Social media is really not our government Elon. Maybe he doesnt understand since he comes from a different system
GenThePerservering
(1,816 posts)masturbation.
leftstreet
(36,107 posts)He's presenting as a socially misfit 14yr old gamer, getting radicalized online by other socially misfit 14 yr olds
Is there no one in his life who cares enough about him to phone in a wellness check?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)womanofthehills
(8,702 posts)Link to tweet
?s=46&t=8kIIWx83BuIj3dGmIQqKfA
obamanut2012
(26,068 posts)He is bleeding money. Social Media platforms run on ads, and Twitter has very little now.
Come on.
moonshinegnomie
(2,443 posts)but as more and more pople leave it will look more like a dumpster fire in a back alley
Roland99
(53,342 posts)It certainly wasnt from an increase in quality