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Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions? Yes (twitter.com/rafaelshimunov)
20 points by robg on Nov 11, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Given how weird stocks prices have fluctuated lately, it's hard to establish a direct causal impact...

...but that's semantics and won't stop Eli Lilly shareholders from filing an expensive lawsuit against Twitter.


This is a nice collision of capitalist illogic. In pursuit of profit a free feature became paid, making the feature worse than useless and hurting a separate corporation who took free medicine and made it paid, hurting thousands and thousands of poor, sick people.

A hugely entertaining week of the internet, so far.




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