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ramagam t1_iugi32g wrote

"...sources told..."

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bafangoolNJ t1_iugn407 wrote

The easiest cop out for journos.

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suckercuck t1_iugp95q wrote

“Some people are saying…”

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bafangoolNJ t1_iugq2im wrote

" A source close to the situation"

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suckercuck t1_iugq5yi wrote

“My cameraman told me…”

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MelonMafia t1_iugr74b wrote

"The crack addict behind Wendy's told me..."

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hethinator1 t1_iugwn4n wrote

“Your mom told me”

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TheRealAlexLifeson t1_iugzxqf wrote

i hate that shit - nobody ever names any sources anymore, and when your not found guilty of something the media reports No proof that something didn't happen ... I've seen a few public figures hit them back on it quite well. I think a majority of people are smart enough to know that they are being cute with their bullshit

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indoloks t1_iugsnxt wrote

i get so fucking sick of that shit on bloomberg, the articles are so biased and meant to make stock movements i swear.. and its under some stupid bullshit like that

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t0pz t1_iuh4y66 wrote

It's Business Insider and they usually verify their sources

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Orome2 t1_iugyzxf wrote

>sources

That guy is wrong 99% of the time.

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Nikluu t1_iuhe3cz wrote

“According to a family friend” is my favorite, like who would expect that to be an informed and non-biased source? Shit’s straight up gossip.

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revenrehe1 t1_iugj3lo wrote

Why does WSB care about twitter anymore? Can’t invest in it. Mollusk has bought a bag of advertising dicks and will have to stroke them or lose his ass and does anyone really care?

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ronreadingpa t1_iugv1it wrote

It's like watching a trainwreck. Can't resist. Also, Musk could choose to take it public again in the future, which I believe will happen.

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soAsian t1_iugwkm1 wrote

Musk can pull a Michael Dell. Go private, buy EMC and load up with more debts then go public again.

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CanadianBacon86 t1_iuhzh7t wrote

He said that is the plan, in 3-5 years, to bring it public again.

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Regular_Try_4833 t1_iugrohk wrote

With this Kanye type month long meltdown he fucked TSLA, his customers and all of his employees, all of his companies. Not that TSLA wasn't already ridiculously overrated.

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Jcpmax t1_iuh2y07 wrote

Hes been having twitter meltdowns since the pandemic started and has come out ahead

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Regular_Try_4833 t1_iuh38pr wrote

Just like Kanye, and this is on a completely different level, just like with Kanye.

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Jcpmax t1_iuh6p7u wrote

Eh. Kanye can be cancelled, Elon cant. Thats the difference. Ownings platforms vs just using them and all that

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randomways t1_iuhpwk1 wrote

Doesn't Kanye own Parler or did that fall through

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Kayyam t1_iui16m3 wrote

No one cares about alt-platforms.

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randomways t1_iui1li2 wrote

I mean half the posts on this sub are about twitter, kappa

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williet123 t1_iuicc2u wrote

I definitely don't care. Do you guys care? Because I definitely do not.

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MontyAtWork t1_iuj3s2e wrote

>Can’t invest in it.

Imo this should make it a banned company as it's below market cap share price.

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FlatOutUseless t1_iuj7ntz wrote

Can someone create a synthetic Twitter stock to bet on for purely gambling reasons?

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KappaTrading t1_iugimwj wrote

Would click but we don't read business insider

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Mathownsme t1_iugqote wrote

We don’t read at all

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Fit-Boomer t1_iugjqcg wrote

If he was smart he would load up on a crypto coin and then announce he is using said coin as the payment vehicle for Twitter. Then dump the initial investment in that coin. Not Doge because everyone already thinks it will be Doge or shib.

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bafangoolNJ t1_iugn6tv wrote

He should honestly sell them their accounts, and pay property taxes on it every year depending on how many followers they have.

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rubbarz t1_iuhkawe wrote

He already said doge will be the coin used.

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Fit-Boomer t1_iuhki5d wrote

Has he ever pivoted before?

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rubbarz t1_iuhnnzf wrote

He's only ever mentioned bitcoin for tesla, doge, ether (i think), and like 1 tweet for Shib

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cstrand31 t1_iugidp2 wrote

He’s gonna need to make up for those lost ad dollars somewhere. Might as well fleece a few sheep.

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AyumiHikaru t1_iugn0kq wrote

Who cares ?

TWTR is gone move on

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pigsgetfathogsdie t1_iugouoc wrote

$20/Month for a ☑️

Elong using the old school sus service charge.

Gotta laugh at Twitter Karens having meltdowns about this charge tho…

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MyLifeIsDope69 t1_iuiqm0x wrote

Dude celebrities make many thousands per tweet promo. He could easily charge a $100k annual membership to the higher tier celebs based on follower account, make a cascading tier you pay based on followers down to the lowest rung maybe being $20.

It's so easy to turn this into a cash cow because the people making millions off their audiences would obviously pay for it since the ROI is still massive for them

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pigsgetfathogsdie t1_iuitdi1 wrote

Believe it or not…

Many celebs are the biggest Twitter Karens about this charge.

I agree they could pay much more than $20/month…

Maybe Elong can lauch a platinum ☑️ and charge celebs $20K/month?

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MyLifeIsDope69 t1_iuitt5v wrote

They'll bitch and moan then their finance manager will tell them to pay up because it's worth it. At least how I see it going down. Having that type of reach to your audience is pretty priceless and Twitter is the best means for quick short form messages to everyone that can be shared easily. Instagram and Facebook don't let them hit their followers in quite the same way.

Alt services don't stand a chance due to network effect Elon would have to really piss off everyone if it's just a few they can't really move effectively plus Parlor and those don't have the servers for massive amounts of people I don't think

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FlatOutUseless t1_iuj89be wrote

Those marks are to prevent impersonation. Right now Twitter is assumed reliable for check marks. They will lose value if people won’t want to get them.

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RUSebist t1_iujd74c wrote

I don't think enough people understand this, remove the checkmark's and all you'll get is more chaos, more scamming and even less ad money

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Puzzled_Bath_984 t1_iugpdvk wrote

Honestly, it's a good idea. The big accounts are deriving millions of dollars of value from their twitter accounts.

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twholst t1_iugieda wrote

Being a blue check ain’t free lol

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Powered_by_bots t1_iugl3oz wrote

hahaha. Elon musk is working hard to be broke.

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lecifire t1_iugrpf6 wrote

Im calling it! Theres gonna be badges of different rarity that can be traded like an nft 😤

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PleaseCaIIMeSir t1_iugwtd2 wrote

People buy loot boxes in video games. They will 100% pay for the blue check mark.

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ankole_watusi t1_iuh1z9b wrote

Twitter is no longer a YOLO or even an investment.

Ban.

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alicevenator t1_iugpff8 wrote

good move. I think that the whole pay for your levels of twitter experiencr has a lot of potential

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Heatbeat t1_iuil0ec wrote

>make up some bullshit.

>sources familiar with the matter.

Every. Time.

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jakethelesser t1_iuh5l4f wrote

Fuck this post. You can’t know anything

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MyBrilliantReality t1_iuhbmpk wrote

Breaking News - Elon Musk is changing the Twitter verified checkmark from blue to red. Users will be able to buy the blue check for $9.99/mo.

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aerithkitty t1_iuhlqcx wrote

I would pay money on social media platforms only if it meant I never had to see an ad or promoted post ever again.

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Bringyourfugshiz t1_iuhzj0s wrote

They mentioned the idea on the All In podcast, im sure thats their source

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Various_Classroom_50 t1_iui2xbn wrote

20$ a month? I got a feeling this comes from the place of Elon musk hates poor people

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chrism323714 t1_iuisjex wrote

I think they should have to pay if you make money using any platform. Even if its $5 bucks a month.

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Jesuskrust1313 t1_iugqtuq wrote

So that freedom of speech thing is gonna cost how much? 😂

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boosterish1313 t1_iugvbi7 wrote

Can’t wait for Bloomberg tmrw and the multitude of experts w/ their sophomoric takes commenting on the “situation” at twitter — not knowing anything — while the actual people at twitter are scrambling // working on overdrive to make changes and improve, etc.

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LavenderAutist t1_iuh1ruh wrote

If you did the work to get verified, I'm sure you can afford a couple of dollars a month.

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DjRemux t1_iuh2ewg wrote

“Freedom of speech” will now cost $240/year

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OneDollar1- t1_iuhn0rp wrote

Very doubtful. Go look at the Tweet that asked people to vote. 800k voters and 80% said they wouldn’t pay. Musk listens to the people, generally.

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Melodic_Risk_5632 t1_iuiz7wi wrote

Musk asking 20$/month for account. That's the end of twitter. Lucky there's still Reddit :-)

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h1g440rs3 t1_iugiwei wrote

Bullish. Twitter should have turned a profit long time ago. Dorsey is a nitwit

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Odd_Explanation3246 t1_iugm56j wrote

Twitter blue check is like validation for alot of people and businesses might want to use it..even if 1 million accounts are paying for it.. thats 240 million/year..elon is going to monetize the fuck out of twitter.

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MillennialToast0 t1_iugv279 wrote

Lol how can there be 1 million verified users who will pay when there are no more than 300k verified users period?

Out of the 300k verified users right now I guarantee you there won't be more than 15-20% who will pay. So that's what, 60k*240=14.4 million dollars a year? Far cry from your 240 million.

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Tybackwoods00 t1_iugwbiu wrote

I think he’s estimating blue check mark community will grow

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imregrettingthis t1_iugmp4l wrote

The likelier is that when the majority of people don't want to pay $20 there will be another network that comes and becomes popular. Twitter is popular because of it's userbase. If it loses a portion of that the people who are willing to pay follow.

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We are about to find out.

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h1g440rs3 t1_iugxf6p wrote

You’re talking like a huge nerd. Twitter has cultural significance you can’t just replace that overnight. And you really think people won’t pay to get verified when they pay for Spotify, Netflix, and any other subscription service? Clout is the only form of currency in social media and to most verified accounts, that would be a business expense.

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MillennialToast0 t1_iuho38l wrote

Lol so why aren't there more than 300k total verified users right now, when it's free? That's less than 1% of daily active users. That number isn't going to suddenly drastically increase "for clout" especially now that you have to pay for that "clout". It's absurd.

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h1g440rs3 t1_iuhv6m3 wrote

Who knows what the criteria to be verified is. Maybe Elon will update the t&a

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imregrettingthis t1_iuhyg6t wrote

Lol. Why does it need to be overnight. Twitter currently doesn’t turn a profit.

If they don’t get to that it doesn’t matter how long they take it will fail. It can be a slow bleed ans I can still be right.

Silly.

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h1g440rs3 t1_iuielys wrote

Again, cultural relevance. But sure, truth social or some other platform will onboard users lul

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imregrettingthis t1_iuievyb wrote

Lol. Are you 2 days old or just not paying attention? 5 years ago it was Instagram. 10 years it was Facebook. 15 years it was MySpace but sure this ones sticking around forever despite actively pushing people away.

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h1g440rs3 t1_iuja2rc wrote

All those platforms served different purposes. For the first source of breaking news, direct thoughts and analysis, and memes twitter is the only one in that space.

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