11-11-2022, 07:20 AM
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#1101
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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You gotta give Elon credit, it was clear to non-cultists that this would be an incredible disaster, and somehow it's been an even bigger disaster, by a lot, than any reasonable person would have expected.
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"Think I'm gonna be the scapegoat for the whole damn machine? Sheeee......."
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11-11-2022, 07:29 AM
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#1102
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Franchise Player
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I was expecting a slow motion train wreck over many months, instead we get trains crashing off bridges every day.
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11-11-2022, 07:32 AM
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#1103
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ontario
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Elon Musk runs twitter like Doug Ford runs Ontario.
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11-11-2022, 08:03 AM
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#1104
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Had an idea!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GGG
I think Meta is far more interesting.
Zukkerberg knows that Facebook, Insta etc are done growing and have entered a state of perpetual decline.
Regulators won’t allow Facebook to buy more social media entrants
They didn’t get to become the host platform and just tax others like apple and google app stores.
So they have two options. Maximize revenue and become a legacy company retiring the largest dividend they can or try to invent the next thing
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$1 billion for Instagram, which has provided a lot of value.
$17 billion for Whatsapp, which is still a glorified chat app regardless of how much try to turn it into something else.
One was bought at the bottom of the market, one at the top.
Good example of how easy it is to get something wrong.
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11-11-2022, 09:51 AM
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#1105
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: SW Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Azure
$1 billion for Instagram, which has provided a lot of value.
$17 billion for Whatsapp, which is still a glorified chat app regardless of how much try to turn it into something else.
One was bought at the bottom of the market, one at the top.
Good example of how easy it is to get something wrong.
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Whatsapp is giant in India and other places like Brazil. Now can they monetize those places - I don't know. But those are huge markets where it could become an actual WeChat like thing unlike Twitter which is dreaming if it thinks it can become anything like that.
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11-11-2022, 09:58 AM
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#1106
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Had an idea!
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Absolutely. One would think that would be the value.
But Facebook bought Whatsapp in 2014, and since then they have spent $36 billion on metaverse and haven't done much with Whatsapp.
Payments alone would be massive on Whatsapp, so no idea why they're not doing that.
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11-11-2022, 12:30 PM
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#1107
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: east van
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Slava
A number of posts this morning that indicate they’ve killed the pay for verification method. It’s kind of a shame, because some of those accounts were hilarious! Overall though, I have no idea what took them so long to recognize that this was a stupid idea.
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It took them this long to work out who was going to tell the boss his idea was ####e, my guess is one of them said '#### it I'm out of here tomorrow anyway, I'll go tell the man child'
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11-11-2022, 12:42 PM
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#1108
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Azure
Absolutely. One would think that would be the value.
But Facebook bought Whatsapp in 2014, and since then they have spent $36 billion on metaverse and haven't done much with Whatsapp.
Payments alone would be massive on Whatsapp, so no idea why they're not doing that.
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Banking regulations. The same reason turning Twitter into a banking app will be a nightmare.
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11-11-2022, 01:34 PM
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#1109
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Franchise Player
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I’m not even on Twitter but I eagerly await Elons daily hairbrained ideas. Best part is he announces new company policy via Twitter for all of us to see.
Can’t wait till he introduces pay per tweet.
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11-11-2022, 01:55 PM
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#1110
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Van City - Main St.
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The parody accounts is the best thing that's ever happened on Twitter.
Maybe Elon is playing 5D chess.
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11-11-2022, 02:34 PM
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#1111
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: ATCO Field, Section 201
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
The parody accounts is the best thing that's ever happened on Twitter.
Maybe Elon is playing 5D chess.
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Twitter is the most entertaining it's ever been. It is like the old internet. God that place was a #### hole.
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11-11-2022, 02:46 PM
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#1112
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
The parody accounts is the best thing that's ever happened on Twitter.
Maybe Elon is playing 5D chess.
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Some of those accounts are hilarious. I laughed at “Doug Ford” telling folks to keep sick kids away from his cottage. “Chiquita Banana” saying “We’ve just overthrown the government of Brazil” was great. I laughed harder than I should’ve at “SpaceX” tweeting “Who up horny for aliens who wanna get they dick sucked by a grey.”
It’s amazing entertainment. You can definitely see why advertisers and corporations aren’t seeing the comedy though. “Lockheed Martini” tweeted for Lockheed Martin that they weren’t selling arms to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the U.S. until further investigation of their human rights abuses. It’s not a great situation for companies to be in.
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11-11-2022, 04:49 PM
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#1113
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
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11-11-2022, 07:00 PM
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#1115
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Franchise Player
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The lawsuits are going to start rolling in soon. Are there any C level execs left, or is Musk about to take the hit for a lot of this stuff? Is jail time a real possibility in his future?
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11-11-2022, 07:03 PM
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#1116
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Scoring Winger
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Well one of the first things he did was fire twitter's legal team, so I'm sure they're in great shape to handle a lawsuit.
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11-11-2022, 07:05 PM
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#1117
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Franchise Player
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https://twitter.com/user/status/1591090938990198784
It's getting tough to tell what is real anymore. Ok, so this account is real, and they are just poking fun. I fear this is going to end really poorly.
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11-11-2022, 08:01 PM
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#1118
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: east van
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
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for Twitter? Musk? or the human race?
Basically yes,yes,no
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11-12-2022, 05:54 AM
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#1120
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: SW Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Slava
Some of those accounts are hilarious. I laughed at “Doug Ford” telling folks to keep sick kids away from his cottage. “Chiquita Banana” saying “We’ve just overthrown the government of Brazil” was great. I laughed harder than I should’ve at “SpaceX” tweeting “Who up horny for aliens who wanna get they dick sucked by a grey.”
It’s amazing entertainment. You can definitely see why advertisers and corporations aren’t seeing the comedy though. “Lockheed Martini” tweeted for Lockheed Martin that they weren’t selling arms to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the U.S. until further investigation of their human rights abuses. It’s not a great situation for companies to be in.
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The funniest one to me was the 2nd Chiquita Banana account that acted like it was correcting the Brazil tweet.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1590831852658790400
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