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@moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago

San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave

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San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave

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@moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago
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Elon Musk is moving X out of San Francisco, but city officials claim it won't have a major impact due to how much the company has shrunk.
  • @Beaver@lemmy.ca
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    63•9 months ago

    X is going to be driven into the ground

    • @overload@sopuli.xyz
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      82•9 months ago

      I’d love to see it fail completely. I’m hoping that musk makes it a site that you have to pay a subscription to see anything at all on there so everyone can finally give up on it.

      • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        53•9 months ago

        You saw the investor list, right? There’s a LOT of people on there who miiiiight not consider direct financial profitability to be the point of their investment.

        • @Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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          17•9 months ago

          Top shareholders of Twitter include:

          1. Elon Musk (owns 78.7% of the company)
          2. Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal (5.7%)
          3. Oracle’s founder Larry Ellison (3.0%)

          WTF they really need to relocate the evil lair in a volcano

          • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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            3•9 months ago

            There’s also a bunch of Russian connections too

            • @vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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              1•9 months ago

              Musk himself is a Russian connection, remember he is friendly with Putin.

        • @overload@sopuli.xyz
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          9 months ago

          That’s true, but I’d imagine running a site like twitter actively costs money. If advertisers aren’t paying, who is? Do they go to their investors and ask for money? For how long could Elon personally afford to run Twitter with all of its development costs?

      • @Beaver@lemmy.ca
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        10•9 months ago

        Hopefully he beats Spez

        • @Bakersfield@lemmy.world
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          1•9 months ago

          It would be hilarious to see Musk beat up spez.

      • @shiftymccool@programming.dev
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        7•9 months ago

        I think it would awesome if it failed so much, Musk was forced to sell. Then, it explodes in popularity

        • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2•9 months ago

          That would be incredible.

        • @Kalysta@lemm.ee
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          1•9 months ago

          Day one it would be the most popular site on the internet.

      • @PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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        1•9 months ago

        Then I guess all the Nazis will go back to stormfront.

      • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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        1•9 months ago

        They’re walking right into new TX regs for social media. I’m already off the platform but any platform that stops me to upload my driver’s license then I’m done with it.

    • @darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
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      8•9 months ago

      Going to be?

    • @db2@lemmy.world
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      4•9 months ago

      What benefit does musk get from killing twitter? He’s getting something out of it.

      • Lightor
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        8•9 months ago

        Yeah, controlling the town square. It’s worth him sinking money into it if he can get favorable tax laws passed as a result.

      • @JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz
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        6•9 months ago

        Election interference all over the world is a great value for his russian, chinese and arabian masters

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