Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Trump SPAC is down 44% since Elon Musk disclosed Twitter stake - CNN

 

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.

 

Who actually uses Twitter on here?

 

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.

 

More member controlled premium content (commission based).

Expanded Twitter Blue features

A la carte features (edit button).

Strong E-commerce features.

 

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

 

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).

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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