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Musk Proposes to Buy Twitter for Original Price of $54.20 a Share

R13... said:
You should read his book. It gives a lot of insight into that mental stability (plus extras).
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Which one? I read the Ashleigh Vance's back in the day when I thought his was an ok person with impressive achievements, turns out most of it was just a PR fluffer piece
 
Tim_vb said:
Which one? I read the Ashleigh Vance's back in the day when I thought his was an ok person with impressive achievements, turns out most of it was just a PR fluffer piece
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The Walter Isaacson one.
 
Tim_vb said:
This "paying a fee" as a bot blocking mechanism seems disingenuous at best since bots are there to make money all it does it disincentivise unprofitable bots.

Seems far more logical that TwitterX needs income and realises they can get cash by charging bots for access
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another thing at play here is the stats will be used in business proposals and reports of how many transactions are being made on twitter. So the proposed small fees are a way of stat padding transaction fee numbers for investor reports or proposals or even marketing purposes when they will eventually need to advertise their payment processing capabilities. They are planning to making payments in general to be part of their business model. It also creates a a foot in the door sales tactic for new users to pay for the other tiers of twitter premium by teaching them to pay from the start when they use twitter. Very sneaky. I think fee narrative to prevent bots is just a nice trojan horse narrative to get in the other things they plan to do with payments.
 
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Unhappy438 said:
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I wondered why he had that weird pose with his back as shown in that video. now one of the universe's mysteries are solved!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1779941345471189323


and maybe doing that was also not a good idea:

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Matata said:
another thing at play here is the stats will be used in business proposals and reports of how many transactions are being made on twitter. So the proposed small fees are a way of stat padding transaction fee numbers for investor reports or proposals or even marketing purposes when they will eventually need to advertise their payment processing capabilities. They are planning to making payments in general to be part of their business model. It also creates a a foot in the door sales tactic for new users to pay for the other tiers of twitter premium by teaching them to pay from the start when they use twitter. Very sneaky. I think fee narrative to prevent bots is just a nice trojan horse narrative to get in the other things they plan to do with payments.
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Phony Mollusc seems to be speedrunning TwitX into the Dead Internet

Dead Internet theory
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The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, minimising organic human activity to manipulate the population. Proponents of the theory believe these bots were created intentionally to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to manipulate consumers.[5][6]
 
Tim_vb said:
Phony Mollusc seems to be speedrunning TwitX into the Dead Internet

Dead Internet theory
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, minimising organic human activity to manipulate the population. Proponents of the theory believe these bots were created intentionally to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to manipulate consumers.[5][6]
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the bobs in bio bots have also increased today. Coincidence with Musk's tweet today? Sometimes I wonder if it is musk who has teams creating them to create a "need" for the pay for verify feature.
 
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