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VisualMod t1_iuahpzg wrote

>That's a fair point. I hadn't considered that.

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DaGOOS3 t1_iuai147 wrote

It already has a user base, all the leg work is "done" just needs new lipstick for the pig

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RedditsFullofShit t1_iuai3ow wrote

I mean we all know why he bought it.

He’s mad at Biden for not including Tesla in the White House invite to auto companies.

And the right is mad at Twitter because they banned trump.

So revenge equals buying Twitter and helping the right fuck the left.

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Sergesince1990 t1_iuaiuir wrote

Replying to RedditsFullofShit (#323,599)

The beef started prior to that I mean there is a reason Biden didn't invite Tesla and it's because Elon played footsies with trump and the right and was very vocal with a lot of influence so it's a way to show others that if your gonna run your mouth openly about politics you will not like when shoes is in the other foot kinda a deal

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acidrainuk t1_iuaj9kc wrote

And that's why he's a billionaire and you're not.

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Specialist_Avocado25 t1_iuajehd wrote

When Google first went public I was also confused as to why anyone would value a blank page with a single text box @ 100 million dollars (or whatever their IPO valuation was). That thought didn't age well.

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pl8ball t1_iuajhed wrote

Why would billionaires buy super yachts when they could just rent them for a week for a fraction of the price

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follow-spy t1_iuajmi3 wrote

Replying to Specialist_Avocado25 (#323,843)

Google is a search engine with an algorithm and AI capabilities.

LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, is Google's system for building chatbots based on its most advanced large language models, so called because it mimics speech by ingesting trillions of words from the internet.

Twitter is a microblogging platform

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brad2008 t1_iuajrcf wrote

Controlling Twitter means you get to control a large portion of the political and social discourse across the country by allowing which voices and opinions are heard. That in turn allows you to shape the messaging to best serve your economic and political interests.

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Big_Lil_ t1_iuajxfh wrote

He coulda bought my space

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YaBastaaa t1_iuak0f5 wrote

I guess he is not an original with innovation/ inventions 🤷🏻‍♂️. But you have a good point.

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-ShaunSparks- t1_iuak8r0 wrote

He bought the Known Name, The Following, The Influence Of those Using this app and possibly evidence. One thing people haven't widely spoken about is by owning this app he now has access to everything behind the curtain and its possible some of it is not on the Up+N+Up... Honestly That information alone might have been worth the money. Whos knows, Either way he owns it now and the Memes being produced since this started are why I'm grateful he did 🤣

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CreativeMinds47 t1_iuakdn1 wrote

Was probably just another stock manipulation.... I bet “he” made 44b+ back within, only saying he won't buy it, and then revers it. He may just get it cheaper than 0,01.

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ETH_Knight t1_iuakm8i wrote

It s not the website it s the userbase. Who the hell uses truth social? Trump. But twitter has millions of users. Even if you don't count the bots there s actual users.

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kewlkangaroo t1_iuakss6 wrote

Do you see Truth Social popping off? Exactly.

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LaPyramideBastille t1_iuakxrq wrote

He needs the platform to promote his conception of reality.

If you normalize racism it increases your chances of being successfully racist.

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aRahman86 t1_iualkhp wrote

So you think he won’t get at least 100 billion out of it? Wait and watch.

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EXEXEN t1_iuam1ci wrote

Replying to token-eater (#323,647)

He made a lot of people a lot of money. Only it was mostly his money and that of banks that deserved to get fucked for dealing with him. If you bought at $30/share when he tried to back out, and sold for $54/share a couple months later, you scored a big profit.

Now, he has already converted the site into another 4Chan, brought back the hate and insults, got the employees ready to bail at the first opportunity, and paid about $200 million in exit money. The conspiracy nuts, racists and haters are all back like roaches moving in on dirty dishes left in the sink. Companies that paid to advertise, like GM don’t want to be associated with that and are putting on the brakes.

After the moderation is gone, the ClownYe and Trumpie bunch fill in, it’s just going to be insults and vile. The $30 billion company he paid $54 billion for will be worth about 1 million, and the servers a ghost town of people that left. The remainders will be pedophiles, pornography peddling skanks, crypto cons, women seeking their true loves, and Q’ers. Wonderful end to a social platform that spun out of control.

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GammaPlease t1_iuam6z0 wrote

Can’t wait to see rich people panic when the truth is no longer hidden

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ETH_Knight t1_iuamg7j wrote

Replying to follow-spy (#324,112)

I never digged it. But I came from 4chan. At first reddit was like a more controlled 4chan. Since you needed an account it was easier to control the randomness that 4chan can show. But reddit can ban you for stupid reasons and in that sense 4chan is more true. You may see a lot of opinions about a specific topic and they may be manipulated by the mods allowing it or not allowing it at all. 4chan has a boring cesspool for years now. I think reddit compares more to 4chan than digg.

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Billyshakes1597 t1_iuamu0e wrote

r/elonmusk think you'll find better discussion here. You know, because the sale is over, the stock is done and there are no more plays to be made.

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mediummorning t1_iuao2bm wrote

Replying to follow-spy (#323,880)

Google is an advertising platform. Twitter is an advertising platform.

The features you list are to engage eyeballs to view the ads, and to collect massive amounts of user data to more efficiently deliver the ads. These increase the advertising rates they can charge.

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andrewta t1_iuao3sn wrote

Replying to GammaPlease (#324,364)

What truth gets hidden in Twitter.

The only thing that was removed was stuff that was PROVEN to be false or blatant racist crap.

Even then there was a lot that wasn’t removed. It’s part of the reason I left. Not enough was done to get it cleaned up

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votequimby420 t1_iuaozhb wrote

  1. He didn’t mean to and got his bluff called.
  2. Lots of narcissistic public figures (media, celeb, politics) are addicted to it, so he gets to control them to some extent.
  3. See number 1
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newreddit2022104 t1_iuapft6 wrote

Cause he’s an idiot. Always has been. A lucky idiot

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Deep-Alps679 t1_iuapzru wrote

Because A LOT of people come to twitter for the news and it’s one of the biggest social media platforms

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burtburtburtcg t1_iuaqwzi wrote

Replying to DaGOOS3 (#324,759)

Doge gme amc and all other P&Ders are cultists and they are all the same. Has nothing to do with Elon. You all talk out your ass promising 10 million billion percent returns as you post from a basement somewhere in rural Kentucky cosplaying as financial analysts.

Hopefully that clears up the fact that my comment has nothing to do with Elon and everything to do with you.

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MyBrilliantReality t1_iuar957 wrote

I wouldn’t bet against Elon, and more importantly his team. They’ll figure it out. Probably something like the strip club model, free to look and pay to play.

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SateliteDicPic t1_iuarbsj wrote

Replying to brad2008 (#323,905)

This isn’t true. He’s already had to walk back certain things he said/planned and has begun pandering to advertisers. He still answers to advertisers and the US government. He has more control but we all answer to somebody.

GM suspended advertising until they have better clarity and we will see many others follow.

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Specialist_Avocado25 t1_iuarugc wrote

Replying to follow-spy (#323,880)

I think you're paying for the eyeballs. It has a very developed community. Sure, you could create an alternate site and build it up over time, but who knows if you would end up succeeding even if it were a superior product.

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DaGOOS3 t1_iuasdc4 wrote

Replying to burtburtburtcg (#325,197)

So you live in podunk Kentucky huh? And yes elon has said how he will use doge, he doesnt promise massive returns. He has talked about the utility. do your own research mouth breather.

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follow-spy t1_iuastr4 wrote

Replying to mediummorning (#324,722)

ADS for google is what keeps the lights on.

Former engineer was let go because he released info to public and he said the new AI they have been developing is transient.

Its well known in tech community they are by far the most advanced in AI research

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RTNoftheMackell t1_iuata4x wrote

It was a dumb Impulsive decision he tried to back out of, before realising he was, in legal parlance, fucked. He s making the most of it to save face. But that place is a toxic, dying ecosystem and he has no good ideas for how to fix it.

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notfrancisard t1_iuatq5h wrote

Isn’t he developing AI? Wouldn’t all of the data on twitter be extremely useful for that purpose?

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fullpp t1_iuau6qz wrote

I bet he did it to get access to all the private messages. How much is that worth?

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Loose_Mail_786 t1_iuauro2 wrote

Exactly. And you can find some good free Wordpress templates as well.

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varano14 t1_iuav97q wrote

Massive source of user data, what all the tech companies and billionaires are really after

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boostwtf t1_iuavarv wrote

I think he was asked to bail it out.

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silentpopes t1_iuavvgm wrote

Replying to DXBflyer (#323,655)

Nah, influence. Bezos owns WaPo, Slim owns the NYT, Zuck Fb etc. It’s a way for billionaires to drive public sentiment, social discourse and politics to influence regulations. My 2cts

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follow-spy t1_iuavy73 wrote

Replying to Loose_Mail_786 (#325,867)

before social media took off, blogging was the trend.

I actually loved blogs because people actually wrote essays and thoughtful ideas.

People responded and conversation got interesting

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pandalocox t1_iuaweft wrote

Or he could've just buy parler...

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specialfriend1376 t1_iuawfci wrote

This might be one of the dumbest takes ever. Say this exact statement to an engineer about Twitter and have fun with their reaction

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follow-spy t1_iuawlv0 wrote

Replying to jd46249 (#325,133)

Lol you reminded of the dude who got screwed with pin risk and he woke up next morning with 50K worth of gains accidentally on spy lol

But my favorite one was the dude who was super excited about futures but then I had to remind him his contract expired that day lol he fat fingered wrong date

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LagThenBag t1_iuawq4u wrote

Twitter is well established and makes lots of ad revenue. A $19 website on go daddy isn’t and doesn’t

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follow-spy t1_iuawy3h wrote

Replying to specialfriend1376 (#326,190)

I know it’s dumb but not dumb enough to spend 44B on a pit

This is the equivalent of buying a house in a shitty neighborhood and it doesn’t matter how many upgrades you do, the house will never gain that much value because of its location

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Boilertribe4 t1_iuax1tg wrote

Replying to Most_Insane_F2P (#326,023)

It's had splits. Google IPOd with a market cap of $23B. Today it's $1.25T.

That's a 55x

But, you definitely have to bet with conviction (and then get lucky) or already have money to make it rich overnight in the markets.

Edit: it's a 1.25T not 1.35T MC

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mediummorning t1_iuax3r8 wrote

Replying to follow-spy (#325,535)

You mean sentient AI?

Blake Lemoine's claims were dismissed by experts in the field.

Google has good AI research but there are plenty of others. For example, look how many companies have poached or been started by the big brains that kick started google AI. Andrew Ng (Google brain co-founder) or Ian Goodfellow for easy examples.

AI is a field you can buy your way into. Poach smart scientists and buy/rent computing power, then sell your AI product or service. Building a user base is much harder, which is the reason Elon bought Twitter instead of starting new website, to bring this back to original question.

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s2pidgenius t1_iuaxct7 wrote

Twitter data could be very beneficial for his Machine learning projects.

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brotatowz t1_iuaxp03 wrote

Replying to follow-spy (#324,112)

yes, I Do.... why the fuck did they implement that shitty ass "News" only system? Did someone pay to kill that site?

Voat could have replaced reddit after Conde Nasty fucked it up. Someone needed to host better servers for voat. we all would have been on voat.

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Loose_Mail_786 t1_iuay2ma wrote

Replying to follow-spy (#326,101)

Don’t start that with me. I had a personal blog for over 5 years and a BlackBerry related blog / business for over 12 years. I spent so many hours using google reader daily to get all my news and following my friends. Back in the days, the user selected what he wanted to see and read, now, it’s the opposite, the platform show you what they want you to see or read. I never found a simple tool like google reader again.

I closed my ig and fb a few weeks ago because there is no more interaction with friends and just got tired of it. I got back on Twitter last night.

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follow-spy t1_iuay6vt wrote

Replying to specialfriend1376 (#326,334)

Tesla and Space x are awesome and they solve world problems.

Twitter is a social media platform trying to moderate incredibly complex human beings. We all grew up in different set of circumstances and have incredible set of different opinions and values. Good luck bringing a civilized discussion with emotional individuals hiding behind a computer screen.

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specialfriend1376 t1_iuazeta wrote

Replying to follow-spy (#326,565)

I don’t think he wants to moderate that much. He wants to create a town hall. Will it work? Idk but if someone was going to fix it, it’s Elon. It also seems like him and Jack have the same idea and belief about it which is interesting and cool.

So yes it may end up a fiery piece of shit :)

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LSSCI t1_iuazrib wrote

Replying to DoctorPilotSpy (#326,201)

Wow,

Because I take him for his word, I’m gullible…

So far, he’s done what he said he was going to do, until he changes, I’ll keep trusting…

Am I supposed to hate him for some reason?

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andrewta t1_iub25fx wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#326,140)

You are right I was wrong

When multiple media organizations check it and independent fact checkers check it… we should just ignore them and go with some small out of the way media outlet… because the others are just lying.

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andrewta t1_iubglp7 wrote

Replying to ColteesBigOleTits (#329,891)

Soo…

Let’s get this straight

You got snarky with me

I got snarky back

You claimed I was being snarky, while forgetting you started that end of it…

And yet somehow I’m the weak one for calling you out.

Yeah you really need to try getting a clue

I’m done here.

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