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Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse | Siva Vaidhyanathan (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It just baffles me why he would buy Twitter in the first place and even more so why he paid what he did for it. PayPal -> Tesla -> SpaceX -> Twitter. How does that make any sense in any way. So there's that from the start, but then why is he firing a torpedo into it. Was his secret plan to bulldoze Twitter from the start? That's a lot to pay for revenge.

[–] popemichael@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

The short of it:

He made an offhand comment about buying twitter as a sort of "joke" but was then forced to go through with it thanks to the legal ramifications of said joke.

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