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The Peasants of Elon’s Digital Fiefdom
Gates of Vienna ^ | December 6, 2022 | Laszlo

Posted on 12/06/2022 4:46:56 PM PST by arthurus

In a cryptic tweet shared with his 107.9 million followers, the billionaire declared: “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.” And when asked whether it would have been easier just to start “X” from scratch, he replied: “Twitter probably accelerates X by three to five years, but I could be wrong.

“Everything apps” haven’t really made a lasting impression in Western economies yet — but over in China, super apps have taken the economy by storm.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: app; control

1 posted on 12/06/2022 4:46:56 PM PST by arthurus
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To: arthurus

Tweater is an interesting financial race between Musk cutting costs faster than Chainsaw Al Dunlap, and loss of advertising revenue from woke corporations.

It will be fun to see the conclusion.


2 posted on 12/06/2022 4:49:43 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: nascarnation

“Tweater is an interesting financial race between Musk cutting costs faster than Chainsaw Al Dunlap, and loss of advertising revenue from woke corporations.

It will be fun to see the conclusion.”

Musk is not in that race. He has bigger goals and Twitter is just one part of that plan.

The whole is larger than the sum of the parts.


3 posted on 12/06/2022 5:10:34 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: nascarnation

So I think people think that woke corporations that stop advertising on Twitter will hurt Twitter more than the corporations but lets see how much these corporations sales are affected.


4 posted on 12/06/2022 5:11:45 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: arthurus

“the everything app”

I’m ready to go back to rotary.


5 posted on 12/06/2022 5:18:10 PM PST by fruser1
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To: fruser1

Got going to need some massive buildings to hold all those banks of frames and selectors.


6 posted on 12/07/2022 12:07:06 AM PST by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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