“Fidelity is currently valuing X at about $9.4 billion”

I found this funny.

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      I wouldn’t be surprised if part of this remaining value is because the Japanese internet still heavily relies on it as a platform, even if the west has begun moving elsewhere.

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    Elon Musk’s greatest personal achievement has been his tireless work and incredible effort toward disproving the myth of Billionaire Exceptionalism.

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    If they influence the election to their desired outcome, then the value won’t matter. The damage will have been done.

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        Yes, he gets a raging fascist boner every time someone fails to assassinate Trump because he thinks it’s the cue to go full Nazi but really he just keeps jumping the gun and making it far too obvious deeply part of Trump’s ongoing fascist takeover schemes and really not the guy we should have any significant government contracts with

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          I see, thanks for the insight. I don’t have Twitter so I didn’t really know about this stuff 😂

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    Musk is and always has been an incompetent yet lucky scammer.

    Twitter will be bankrupt within two years.

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    Let’s everyone point and laugh. It humbles people like him, right?

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        Appreciated. Yeah. That douche is the absolute worst, but everyone climbing over one another to call him out is just making him more and more relevant.

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          I tend to ignore posts about him. I wouldn’t even be commenting here if I weren’t just trying to see if I’m banned from this instance, or just political memes.

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      I’m confident you could unload the property for $4B easily enough. That’s somewhere in the neighborhood of $10-100/unique user amortized out over the life of the loan, which would be a steal via any other advertising medium.

      Twitter still has real value. Hundreds of millions of people still use it, even in its deplorable state. And under new management, I’m confident people would flood back in.

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    I remember thinking twitter was bad before he took over

    It’s now a complete shadow of what it was even just a couple of years ago. Just a quarter of its value seems generous

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    If he succeeds in using it as a propaganda platform to force the US into a fascist dictatorship, he will have gotten his money’s worth.