On: Twitter is suspending journalists who cover Elon

[TillE]

This is the first time I've really truly felt that wow, he's actually going to kill Twitter. When he forces people with an audience to move elsewhere, that audience is gradually going to follow.

[jacquesm → TillE]

I wonder if you had $44B in 1 dollar notes and you fed them into an incinerator with a shovel if you could keep up with the value destruction here.

[walrus01 → jacquesm]

A US banknote weighs approximately one gram, so if you could fit 3 kg tightly bundled on one shovel load that would be $3000 per shovel load.

Let's say you work 24 hours a day and can shovel 8000 loads into the fire a day.

That's maybe 24 million a day

So the answer is likely that they are destroying the $44bn more rapidly than you could shovel it

[jacquesm → walrus01]

Time to go shopping for a bulldozer then. Thanks for doing the hard work on that one.

[lern_too_spel → jacquesm]

If Musk is in a Brewster's Millions scenario, he's doing fantastically well. The rules stipulate that he must not spend his money foolishly, but after spending his money on a leveraged buyout of a company that could reasonably have been worth a particular amount at time of offer, driving down the value of the company with foolish decisions is within the rules.

[Trouble_007 → jacquesm]

>Let this sink in

$44B down the drain... down the plug hole... down the gurgler... down the 'S' bend... flushed

Twitter down the disposal... down the insinkerator...

[anigbrowl → jacquesm]

I'm willing to give it the old college try. For, uh, science.

[jacquesm → anigbrowl]

Step on those scales over there please.

[cactusplant7374 → TillE]

The question in my mind is will he use his own money to keep Twitter afloat. He drove the advertisers away and threatened to sue them even though Twitter isn't profitable.

[lofaszvanitt → TillE]

You are wrong. People are 90% ignorant. They don't follow anyone, anywhere, maybe a small minority, until their plaything is at hand.