Posted on 01/21/2018 10:23:08 PM PST by ShivaFan
A Saudi prince has increased his holdings in Twitter, making him the company’s second largest shareholder.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, who in 2011 invested $300 million in the social network, now owns 34.9 million shares of Twitter’s common stock, according to a new regulatory filing (pdf).
At nearly 5.2%, his stake in the company is now larger than that of Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder and newly re-minted CEO, whose 21.86 million shares give him 3.2% of the company, according to FactSet. (The prince previously had a stake of roughly 3%.)
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams remains the company’s largest shareholder, with 46.56 million shares for a 6.9% stake.
https://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twitter-than-jack-dorsey-does/
I would offer the observation that Twitter has peaked out and you will start to see a decline in participation with the ‘gimmick’. Facebook will suffer the same decline shortly as well.
Facebook did that to me on a left-wing site. They make it look like my comment is there for all to see...but when I didn’t get replies, I logged off, and it was gone.
Trump is the only reason I’m even on Twitter.
If they keep this up, he might move his messages to another platform and pronounce anathema upon them as he has the NFL and others who seemed to have suffered catastrophic losses afterwards.
Notice how everyone who attacks Trump seems to be cursed?
So, is this why you only see negative replies to Trump’s tweets? I only visit twitter every once in awhile to read his tweets and all the responses are hate-filled garbage.
I notice the same. Or when a liberal says something crazy, it is all positive responses.
Perhaps Trump should investigate and then announce his intention to move from Twitter to another service where anyone interested can view his remarks.
Twitter (and Facebook and Google) should be broken up pursuant to our anti-trust laws for monopolistic practices.
Yep. This started big time right after Trump won. I noticed a huge downturn in the amount of replies I got from libs when I trolled them. Especially on tweets that had been retweeted many times that had a lot of replies.
Does Trump post all his Twitter posts on Gab as well?
I don’t think so but he should.
Read rumors that there was an assassination attempt on the Crown Prince and Alwaleed was evidently involved.
Who says SA is boring.
It is entirely possible to create a browser plugin that would alter the way that Twitter works for the user.
They are playing with fire.... a distributed system that changed the way Twitter works could not be defeated by Twitter.
You could even pass data through the TOR network...
It would not be possible to detect who was using the plugin.
Simple code to create, mostly just elementary text parsing and search-engine code.
They would need to ban all search-engine spiders from Twitter to hide data....and even then there would be work-a rounds.
It would be like trying to keep the ocean away from the beach.
They cannot keep simple code like ad block plus from altering the way their sites work...and that is with a great deal of money at stake.
Easy to round up the talent to create such a system...just go fish for talent on Reddit and the chans.
No, he does not...
But an enterprising soul could write a bit of code that would mirror all his posts to a gab.ai account.
Very, very easy to do something like that.
Just have the program watch for Trump posts on Twitter and quickly parse the post and place it on the gab.ai account.
One could do the same with thousands of twitter users feeds...mirror them all to gab.ai accounts... where they would become safe from shadowbanning and other such nonsense.
Perhaps Salman can seize alwaleed's brokerage accounts.
As for SA being boring, I bet hollowood producers are interested in making a film/tv show based on the conspiracy theory that the vegas shooting was alwaleed's botched assassintion attempt against Salman.
If our President posted to Gab, they would have an exponential increase in accounts.
The founder of Gab is a conservative who was sick of the bias.
Perhaps we need to email (in case Twitter censors private messages too) and Twitter message our President and ask him to open a Gab account. I know I am going to do that :)
That’s right. I had totally forgotten about that. I’m surprised it hasn’t been a more prominent story.
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