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Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by rivergator, Apr 4, 2022.

  1. GatorNorth

    GatorNorth Premium Member Premium Member

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    I’d expect a whole bunch of new subscription-type revenue streams are beta tested after Musk closes.
     
  2. mdgator05

    mdgator05 Premium Member

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    Could be, but the reason they haven't done this is that Twitter's user base is really not that large and that discourages user base growth.
     
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  3. gatorpa

    gatorpa GC Hall of Fame

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    Do you realize that 80% of minors who are gender confused end up changing their minds?
    Tough to change your mind when your parts are gone.
     
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  4. officelife

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    This..is...just...dumb. An imaginary statistic, combined with ignorance of medical procedures, and a lack of any humanity.
     
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  5. OklahomaGator

    OklahomaGator Jedi Administrator Moderator VIP Member

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    Musk's owns 172,600,000 shares of Tesla stock. At $1,000 a share that is worth $173 billion dollars. He only owns 17% of Telsa so even if he lost all of the stock he pledged for Twitter, he would still own around 12% of Tesla.
     
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  6. gator95

    gator95 GC Hall of Fame

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    Musk strikes you as someone who will waste his money on something? People thought TSLA wouldn't be a stock success either. That didn't turn out well for those who shorted TSLA
     
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  7. mdgator05

    mdgator05 Premium Member

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    So how does one monetize Twitter? And yes, this deal strikes me as wasteful, which is why the markets bought it before today either.
     
  8. oragator1

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  10. oragator1

    oragator1 Premium Member

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    The poison pill was either a legit strategy that fell by the wayside when the stock stated tanking, or something they reconsidered when they realized what their shareholder return would be (or share shots started revolting), or a negotiating ploy, given they got an extra however many billions out of Musk in the final deal.
    In any case, had they truly wanted to stick by it it would have worked, just would have poisoned their side too. But we might never know what Their actual strategy was.
     
  11. Swamplizard

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    Who actually uses Twitter on here?
     
  12. mdgator05

    mdgator05 Premium Member

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    I think the board probably figured this was a ploy for attention, because why would somebody pay so much to privatize a firm that has never figured out a way to turn a profit. Then he went out and got the money and risked a chunk of his stake in a profitable company. Twitter's stock didn't tank, but it didn't shoot up in anticipation of a purchase either. When he actually made the offer official, they would be dumb to turn it down.
     
  13. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    More member controlled premium content (commission based).

    Expanded Twitter Blue features

    A la carte features (edit button).

    Strong E-commerce features.
     
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  14. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    I do. Multiple accounts. Multiple reasons ranging from business to sports.
     
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  15. mdgator05

    mdgator05 Premium Member

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    The only one of those that looks like it would have potential for serious monetary collection without a huge hit to user experience is the first (basically cutting into substack's business), but the platform itself holds it back (unless you start allowing better long-form posting, which seems to kill their point of differentiation).
     
  16. tilly

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    Dont discount his background in the e-commerce space. A few interesting theories floating out there about this today.
     
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  17. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    If long form posting is a premium you can monetize it while people still have the option not to follow such accounts. The (mostly) free accounts will just stay status quo with character limit
     
  18. mdgator05

    mdgator05 Premium Member

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    We will see, but the past management arguably had more background in it (through Square). But it better be a good idea, because he just dumped a huge premium on it and risked some of his stake in a highly successful business to do so.
     
  19. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    Teslas potential stock split and continued market share growth could be part of his decision too no?