Breaking - Twitter accepts the offer from Musk n/t

[malaise]

[rurallib]

1. that is sad

[malaise]

2. That's an understatement

[gab13by13]

3. That is sad and bad,

this hastens the move to autocracy. Break up Twitter.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. They accepted an offer way below their all time peak? Admission the business is BROKEN

Will be a very poor investment for Elongated ego. Wonder if his timing is meant to stabilize markets.

[Renew Deal]

5. I'm not surprised

Money talks

[Itchinjim]

6. Goodbye Twitter.

[2naSalit]

12. +1000 X 1000...

And then some!

I hope someone comes up with a new platform quickly. Twitter should die a rapid death.

This is part of the move toward a global apartheid in communication affecting how people can interact. Currently the platform is crucial to the war effort in Ukraine and the fight for freedom and self determination around the world, it appears that will be ending very soon and is part of the movement of the swells to control the masses.

[samplegirl]

7. Oh god

[Blues Heron]

8. TFG returns in 3-2-1.....

Fucking Musk Melon...

[helpisontheway]

30. Yup! Nt

[sop]

9. Maybe now Twitter will burst into flames, or run off the road and hit a tree?

[Sherman A1]

11. I agree

this could be a very good thing. A world without Twitter in my opinion would be a better place.

[Hortensis]

24. Nah. Those who go to it for the worst would just switch to another.

Fwiw, I don't go for the trash so many complain constantly about so I don't see it. Doesn't even exist for me -- on purpose. After all, GIGO.

People and institutions highly regarded by their peers in various fields, and by world leaders, use Twitter to spread information they think people should know, including what's happening right now or about to. Many publish in journals most of us don't have subscriptions to, but their Twitter posts offer little synopses or bits of infno that curious minds can usually google something more from.

[2naSalit]

13. +1

[Carlitos Brigante]

25. .

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[Polybius]

43. I doubt it

Musk's businesses are successful, he isn't Trump.

[sop]

45. Teslas have been bursting into flames and losing control.

I agree, if Trump made cars they'd be much worse.

[Fullduplexxx]

10. Money always wins

[C_U_L8R]

14. Have they actually accepted the bid?

All I saw were posts saying the board was prepared to accept.

[True Dough]

18. Reuters is reporting it, unfortunately...

Looks to be accurate:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-twitter-set-accept-musks-best-final-offer-sources-2022-04-25/

[C_U_L8R]

19. Set to Accept

Is different than Accepted. Sounds more like a PR ploy to flush out counter offers

[Silver Gaia]

22. Agreed.

I didnt see anything saying it's a done deal. So, we shall see...

[uponit7771]

34. +1

[snowybirdie]

15. Thank you

Just deactivated my account! OK my good deed for the day.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

16. Welp...there goes the neighborhood. nt

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

17. Just deleted my account.

Also, I will no longer rec any post that directs to twitter.

[bigtree]

31. do what you want, but you're basically cedeing ground to the journos (and others) who use twitter

...to promote their copy.

I'm sure they'd be more than happy to practice their influencing on Twitter without pushback.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

32. They have been doing it...

on MSM for decades.

Have fun.

[bigtree]

35. we've never had this kind of access, in real time, to journos and pols

...to place our opinions and responses, in real time next to their own privileged missive, and propagandized reporting and messaging.

Surrendering that ground before the opposition does is just tying our own hands.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

39. Won't be long...

until something else rises up to replace it.

I can wait.

[bigtree]

41. meanwhile, there's a battle raging on the other side of the wall

...folks looking on thinking if no one cares enough to speak up in rebuttal, there must be a kernel of truth in it all.

[KS Toronado]

20. Elon Musk is using the Russian playbook

Take over social media to win, IQ4.5 would be back on minutes after the deal is finalized.
Time to stop buying his cars, maybe get the Southern Poverty Law Center to classify it
as a hate group, then congress could kill it, if that's possible.

[newdayneeded]

21. All to get

donny his Twitter back

[RaDaR63]

23. I really don't see the problem.

I've never had a twitter account. I never saw the point. Twitter is a crutch for lazy journalism. Everyone suffers from that.

This is just a part of the evolution of tech. There are many Twitter junkies. Some will stay until the bitter end and some will immediately move on to the next shiny object.

[bigtree]

29. you know what makes journalism lazy?

...publishing articles without feedback or pushback in real time. Twitter gives readers a voice right alongside of those media promotions, and has more than a little influence on copy.

Leaving that ground to them is basically surrender to their propagandized reporting.

[Demovictory9]

26. I deactivated my account

[marmar]

27. I don't go on Twitter that often....now I'm really done with it.

[sanatanadharma]

28. #cancelmuskTwit

Start it now, viral-ize the movement, perhaps the sale will fail, if not CANCEL!

[Initech]

33. Booooooooo!!!

[bluestarone]

36. Hell why delete?

Enough of us we can counter what ever lies are put out there! We CAN fight these ASSHOLES!! (play there game BETTER than they do)

[TuskMoar]

37. Not Deleting My Account

To be honest, I see to many democrats running from the fight. They don't want to live in Texas or Georgia and move to blue states or to Canada (or at least they fantasize about it). I hope people keep their accounts and engage. Don't run from the fight. Shine a light on the cockroaches. It is better to have them out in the open than in some dark corner of the internet quietly and secretly plotting the next coup.

[New Breed Leader]

38. ...

Link to tweet

[Septua]

46. Looking at it another way

Assume Musk takes control, opens up 1st Amendment rights and reinstates TFG's account. The Twitter ban didn't slow him down. His bullshit propaganda still got, and continues to get posted, on Twitter via sympathizers' accounts. It is a pretty much symbolic show of responsible management on Twitter's part and gives us some satisfaction but the Big Lie lives on.

And they didn't ban the likes of MTG, Jordan, pro-Trump sympathizers in general, who distribute disinformation on a near daily basis.

Twitter is already deep in a cesspool of disinformation so Musk can only let it to go deeper.

[Takket]

40. I'm concerned but not leaving twitter.

I think it’s silly to quit just because he bought it. He hasn’t even implemented any new policies yet. If he does, and I don’t like it, I’ll leave. But right now April 25th twitter is exactly the same as April 24th.

[slater71]

42. First thing he does is put Trump back on Twitter. Musk is dangerous.

There is no difference between Trump and Putin and Musk and the oligarchs of Russia. Or the Kochs and the Mellons or any other right-wing billionaires in the US. Put Trump in there again and they will buy him what he needs to control the country just like Putin.

[rockfordfile]

44. If it goes through then leave twitter. Easy one.

The right-wing fascist already know they're a pos and anything they create is pos. So now they're buying something they can't beatcreate.
If the un-American fascist buys Twitter then leave it. Senators and Congressmen should leave. Advertisers should leave and not support a racist, bigot and fascist platform that welcomes it. Create another message media app. There will be a big opportunity for that.