In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close and some equity partners don’t come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock. @elonmusk 2:53 AM · Aug 10, 2022
50% chance that is a bs excuse to liquidate - 50% chance he has figured out he is totally screwed on the twitter lawsuit.
I'm more astounded because I remember from 2015 or before, here on HN several threads for months on end popping up all about how Twitter was defrauding users with bots. Then it quietly disappeared and now we are hearing about it all over again. I don't know which users are bots, I know people can buy followers, are those the bots? If that's the full extent of it, it feels, so insignificant to me, however, they were apparently reporting usage metrics which included bots on the platform which was misleading to investors is what I remember being the issue back 5 or more years.
What does this mean for Elon Musk? I'm not sure, but I wonder if he already knew about the bots or what.
I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans @elonmusk April 25, 2022
On April 25, 2022 - Twitter's board of directors accepted Musk's buyout offer of $44 billion.
50% chance that is a bs excuse to liquidate - 50% chance he has figured out he is totally screwed on the twitter lawsuit.