This is honestly something I thought Twitter should have been doing:
https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1586825955871318016?s=20&t=GCB65fOkzAtO2SnYv0oOog
Like with the Twitter acquisition, Musk clearly doesn’t sweat entering litigation he knows he isn’t likely to win. It’s a freeroll because the money he spends on suing/being sued is meaningless to him. In this case, it isn’t even all his money, it’s Twitter’s, so it’s his and MBS’s and the banks etc. Maybe he gets a better deal through litigation, maybe he doesn’t, but he’s an asshole so if he makes somebody else’s life difficult he’s always a winner.
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Yeah, he probably just enjoys the sport and reaction he gets by making it a pain in the ass for them to get their compensation. If he loses, he loses, he was going to pay it anyway if they were severed.
Stiffing execs on contracts isn’t going to brighten the mood at Tesla and SpaceX.
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I might pay to get verified on unstuck, but not twitter.
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Genius move would be to have vanity badge upgrades, like a Blood Drop Cross for $9.99.
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I mean that’s not even a bad idea. $5/mo for a pro Ukraine or pro life/pro choice or whatever badge. If 1 million people bought a badge that’s 60 mil per year. (And you get their financial info, the best sort of verification.) Lotta ways to extract blood from the Twitter stone–many of which will damage the company, but that’s the essence of finance.
I assume Musk will give Jews the star of David badge for free
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Charge for an expanded choice of emojis.
TWITTER BATTLE PASS
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awesome
This POS “disaffected liberal” is way ahead of you.
https://twitter.com/MrReciprocity/status/1586029273068044289
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I don’t think this is going to go well financially or otherwise. Why the hell would the engineers work their ass off on anything other than finding a new job?
https://twitter.com/reckless/status/1586884530988027904?s=46&t=whwIHKT8utvjY-09ZQSCcA
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586871691686223872?t=K239AnNvDn80MEOzXzQoCg&s=19
Why would you…fuck it, nevermind
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And his genius business plan is to charge $20 a month for checkmarks that only matter even a little bit to mainstream journalists.
I’m sure this will all work out for him because we live in hell but this guy is a straight up fucking moron.
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How many blue checks are there? 10k? So that’s 200k/mo, or 2.4M/yr. That $54bn will pay for itself in no time.