Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter is on hold as the billionaire rocketeer demands an accurate count of fake users on the social platform. Twitter’s CEO seems to dance around the truth. Is Musk just trolling Twitter, negotiating a better deal, or engaged in elaborate self-sabotage?
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10 replies on “Is Elon Musk Trolling Twitter? Do We Really Know Why He Wants Accurate Count of Fake Users”
Elon should make the deal based on “their word”. You get X so long as your numbers are real. After purchase, I will be refunded y% for every percentage over 5% that an independent auditor establishes.
Elon is in a win-win. If he reveals them to the public, they go down in flames and he invests in a competitor. If they actually reveal their falsehoods, he gets a better price, and turns it into what he has stated.
I’m betting on Elon!
“The noble Brutus says Caesar was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man…”
OK, I will be that guy!
Bill – You keep using that word (honorable). I do not think it means what you think it means!
I’m embarrassed to say that I only have a peripheral idea of what a “bot” even is, would never know how to create one, recognize one when passing them in the hall, or figure out how to get rid of them. My general idea is that if the absolute number of “non-bot” users is far less than advertised, the value of Twitter would be correspondingly less. Well, …, duh. Musk needs to know and this whole conspiracy confabulation is stupid.
Rush used to talk about his “secret way” of taking care of the bots and cyber attacks on him and his company. Rush was very tekkie, and enjoyed staying ahead of the latest crazies. I miss Rush, but you guys are close. Why are you in the same ballpark with Rush? You use humor and sarcasm. Thanks!!
Rush also called Twitter an open sewer! How correct he was.
I am convinced it is a negotiating tactic to get a better sales price and to expose how all the social media platforms have been caught fraudulently representing themselves to advertisers hence the SEC involvement. This lines up with his personality type of being a brilliant troll.
Too, there’s the aspect of nullifying a contract that was based on fraud. If Twitter lied about itself in the purchase negotiations the contract can be voided thereby. The earnest party is not subject to penalties to be paid to the fraudulent party by reason of the latter committing a fraudulent act misrepresenting actual value.
Shorter, non-technical version —
Twitter lied about itself and that lets Musk off the billion dollar default if he walks away.
I’ve been saying for a while now that one of the biggest problems with Twitter is the fact that it was sold to corporate America (and the corporate media) … and by the way politicians also bought it — as a way to take the instantaneous pulse of the passions of the people.
Almost overnight, “news” programs started talking about what was trending on twitter, some even started whole twitter segments. Corporations started watching what was trending on twitter, and … at that point, the potential payoff for manipulating what was trending (and what wasn’t) became immense.
I’m sure at first there were people hired to do it, but it probably quickly developed into an underground bot industry. If not quickly, pretty sure it eventually developed into an underground bot industry.
Then twitter itself got involved in manipulating what was and wasn’t going to trend.
It sounds like, from this discussion, it’s a giant puffer fish that has strongly influenced WAY too many government and corporate … and personal … decisions.