Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter

[George K]

[Horace]

@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

Good news. I figured Mr Cook was more pragmatic than how that threat about the Twitter app made him sound.

[Axtremus]

@Copper said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

Apple hates App Developers

Really Hates them

I have no idea why, the developers make them a fortune.

Maybe the developers can unionize and collectively bargain with Apple.

[taiwan_girl]

I would think that Twitter would have more to lose than Apple if the two got into a fight

[LuFins Dad]

@taiwan_girl said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

I would think that Twitter would have more to lose than Apple if the two got into a fight

Depends on the fight.

[LuFins Dad]

@Axtremus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

@Copper said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

Apple hates App Developers

Really Hates them

I have no idea why, the developers make them a fortune.

Maybe the developers can unionize and collectively bargain with Apple.

Depends on what app developers are willing to do to other app developers that don’t feel the same as them…

Labor unions gained power because they kicked the shit out of laborers that wouldn’t join them. Do you think App developers will do the same.

[Axtremus]

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/14/twitter-elon-musk-paying-bills-rent

The article reports that Twitter is delinquent on many bills, including rent for many of its offices worldwide.

[xenon]

@Axtremus it’s a pretty basic website - the customer facing experience won’t change much even if the ops teams get cut back even more.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

Musk's explanation:

[89th]

Seems logical to me.

[Axtremus]

Musk recently sold $3.6 Billion of Tesla shares:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000089924322038522/xslF345X03/doc4.xml

Note the transaction dates, all in Dec. 12-14.

[Horace]

@Axtremus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

Musk recently sold $3.6 Billion of Tesla shares:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000089924322038522/xslF345X03/doc4.xml

Note the transaction dates, all in Dec. 12-14.

Tesla stock is down 70% from its all time high a year ago.

[George K]

[89th]

@George-K That is weird. I've personally worked on a few projects that leverage ADS-B open flight tracking data. It's still open, and available on the internet, but I guess a user would just have to click a few more times to track a specific flight, including Elon's or Bezos'. It's all publicly available.

[George K]

@89th said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

It's all publicly available.

Indeed. I would guess that using bots to aggregate the info and make it easy to find on Twitter is the issue. Similar to a (remember those?) phone book. Yeah, the person's address is publicly available, but...

[Doctor Phibes]

Apparently Elon isn't as keen on those funny little practical jokes where he's the punchline.

[George K]

Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?

Busy cutting deals palling around with Jared and the Arabs while watching the World Cup final? There is a thread on that, right?

[jon-nyc]