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Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
Musk's personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 84 points 9 months ago (13 children)

I think he was trying to get out of Twitter and wanted to do a real life version of his Dogecoin pump and dumps. You know, talk a big game, hype up how the stock is gonna go to the moon after he brings his genius to bare on the company, then dump the stock and pull out of the deal. However, during the hype phase he managed to say some legally binding things and suddenly found himself forced to honor what he thought was going to be empty hype.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Pretty sure that's illegal

[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's his entire business model. Just look at starship, hyper loop, solar roofs and Tesla semi. Overblown Tesla stock bubble too. All complete vaporware, but he profits greatly from the hype alone. He belongs in prison as he is a classic conman.

[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

As much as I personally dislike Musk, Starship does not belong on that list. It is the largest and most powerful space vehicle humanity has ever launched successfully and landed! It is re-usable and can potentially carry up to 100 people or 300,000 lbs of cargo.

Nothing like that has ever been done before, and the advancements in science that will follow humanities expansion into space cannot be overstated.

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

100 people are, like, 19,000 lbs. Why the weight difference between 100 people and just cargo? Because of life support systems?

[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

1 ton per person for living quarters, supplies, etc. I'm not sure if life support is part of that, and also not sure how exactly they settled on 1 ton.

SpaceX has stated that Starship, in its "baseline reuseable design", will have a payload capacity of 100–150 t (220,000–331,000 lb)

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship

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