Lemme make sure I understand this right.
The Saudi investor in Formerly-Known-As is out $1.4 billion on a $2 billion investment, and this is part of a PLAN?
A plan to do WHAT?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/01/musk-twitter-investors-underwater/
as i see it
the plan is to use it to influence
the US presidential election
it only has to keep
functioning in the US
until the election
trying to convince americans
that yes
they would rather live
under the thumb
of a dictator
the saudi's
had the additional motive
of using inside knowledge
to be able arrest
any of their citizens
critisizing them
Why would the Saudis need to invest two billion dollars and lose three-quarters of it to do what they could do just by LOOKING at Twitter?
looking at twitter
doesn't necessary
give you the necessary
info to find the real person
don't you recall
the news story
that came out
after the twitter takeover
about all the arrests
and executions
Um, who runs the Internet in Saudi Arabia?
i didn't say
i thought it was an effective
method of influence
and its influence
dues back everyday
under the current leadership
the people who took
it over thought
they could use it
to influence opinions
Nah, they thought they could make money at it. They were mistaken.
@millard_jmm
How's a site on which a serious minority of Americans have an account, and of those who DO, better than eighty percent never use it, going to "influence an election"?
If Formerly-Known-As could "influence elections", we'd be in Bernie Sanders' second term.
This "Twitter makes things happen in the real world" stuff is a myth conceived by Twitter's PR department. It's not true.