Elon Musk- ‘There Will Be Blood’

I would never get in a self-driving car. Besides what's the point, the whole reason of driving a car is because it's fun

These accusations would be completely aside from the fact that Musk could buy twitter, right?

The mainstream media used to love Musk until he wanted to buy Twitter. Now they're trashing him as hard as they can. Funny how that works.

oliver clotheshoffe wrote:

The mainstream media used to love Musk until he wanted to buy Twitter. Now they're trashing him as hard as they can. Funny how that works.

Not to mention that he announced that he plans to vote republican .. They'll hurl anything at him they can find ..or even shit they can't find and wish they could

Why, what's the difference between Musk owing it and that guy with the Karl Marx beard owning it?

Elon Musk Threatens to End Deal With Twitter
Martin Walsh, June 6, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is threatening to exercise his “right not to consummate” his acquisition of Twitter and a “right to terminate the merger agreement.”

In a letter from his lawyers to the Twitter general counsel Vijaya Gadde, Musk accused Twitter of “resisting and thwarting” his right to information about fake accounts on the platform, calling it a “clear material breach” of the terms of their merger agreement.

“Mr. Musk reserves all rights resulting therefrom, including his right not to consummate the transaction and his right to terminate the merger agreement,” the letter, signed by Skadden attorney Mike Ringler, says.

“He said his team would do a random sampling to calculate the number of fake accounts, but Twitter’s CEO later explained that nonpublic information would be necessary to get an accurate count. Twitter executives told staff there’s ‘no such thing’ as putting the deal on hold as Musk claimed,” CNBC reported.

“In Monday’s letter, Musk’s lawyer wrote that the merger agreement requires Twitter to provide the data Musk requested and disputed the company’s alleged claim that it is only required to provide information for the limited purpose of helping to close the transaction,” the report added.

“To the contrary, Mr. Musk is entitled to seek, and Twitter is obligated to provide, information and data for, inter alia, ‘any reasonable business purpose related to the consummation of the transaction,’” the letter says.

“At this point, Mr. Musk believes Twitter is transparently refusing to comply with its obligations under the merger agreement, which is causing further suspicion that the company is withholding the requested data due to concern for what Mr. Musk’s own analysis of that data will uncover,” it continues.

Axios reported: “The bottom line: There is zero chance that Twitter will simply accept Musk’s assertion that he has the right to withdraw from the agreement. If he tries to do so, things are likely to get messy.”



Last week, Musk sounded the alarm after he noticed something strange about his Twitter account.

A fan of the man who has made a successful bid to purchase Twitter, to the chagrin of some of its employees, noticed that Musk’s tweets stopped loading after scrolling.

“Hey @elonmusk, twitter is FKING you. Dear everyone, SCROLL down on @elonmusk’s tweets & replies and tell me….. DO THEY STOP LOADING????” the Twitter user said.

“Do @elonmusk’s tweets stop loading after a short scroll for YOU too?” he said in a poll that showed around 80 percent of the respondents saying that they had noticed the issue.



“The thing that’s fk’d about this is NO TRANSPARENCY. Twitter FKs users without consent (there’s a word for that, isn’t there…?) and doesn’t tell anyone what they’ve done. Users have NO RECOURSE and most never even KNOW they were—or are still BEING—FK’d. Not cool,” the user said.

“Hoping soon after this tweet thread is posted this “bug” is fixed, but I’m not counting on it,” he said.



The tweet caught the attention of the CEo who said in a tweet “Very strange indeed!”



The U.K.’s Daily Mail reported that it “confirmed that Musk’s tweets older than 11 hours briefly stopped loading for some users, but the glitch went away on its own after repeatedly refreshing the page for around 30 minutes.”

The New York Post reported that it had “confirmed at the time of writing that his feed does not display any replies that are older than 17 hours and the earlier tweets only showed up after adjusting the settings to display only public tweets.”

If a Twitter employee is tinkering with his account, or if it is a bug, is unknown.

Twitter reportedly will give Musk the full “firehose” of user data he demanded
Report: Twitter to give Musk the firehose after he threatened to kill merger.
JON BRODKIN - 6/8/2022, 2:08 PM - https://arstechnica.com

Twitter now plans to comply with Elon Musk's demand for user data that he says is needed to determine whether the company's spam estimates are accurate, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

"After a weeks-long impasse, Twitter's board plans to comply with Elon Musk's demands for internal data by offering access to its full 'firehose,' the massive stream of data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted each day, according to a person familiar with the company's thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the state of negotiations," the Post wrote.

Twitter declined comment on the Post report when contacted by Ars today but pointed to its statement from Monday that "Twitter has and will continue to cooperatively share information with Mr. Musk to consummate the transaction in accordance with the terms of the merger agreement."

Whether Twitter has to give all the user data to Musk is under dispute. The Post report comes two days after Musk's legal team sent a letter to Twitter claiming the company violated the merger agreement by refusing to provide the data behind its spam estimates.

Providing data could help Twitter complete sale

Twitter giving Musk the requested data could be bad for him if his real goal is getting out of the $44 billion purchase deal. It would undercut Musk's claim that Twitter violated the merger agreement, and Twitter seems confident that its estimate is accurate.

Twitter could provide the data to Musk "as soon as this week," the Post wrote. "Currently some two dozen companies pay for access to the trove, which comprises not only a real-time record of tweets but the devices they tweet from, as well as information about the accounts that tweet."

Musk's offer to buy Twitter waived "business due diligence," but he says Twitter must provide the requested data because of a clause in the merger agreement that says he is entitled to information "for any reasonable business purpose related to the consummation of the transaction."

Musk's letter claims he has a "right to terminate the merger agreement" if Twitter doesn't comply. The letter also said Musk needs a "complete and accurate understanding of the very core of Twitter's business model—its active user base" in order to obtain financing and prepare for the ownership transition.

"Mr. Musk believes Twitter is transparently refusing to comply with its obligations under the merger agreement, which is causing further suspicion that the company is withholding the requested data due to concern for what Mr. Musk's own analysis of that data will uncover," the letter from Musk's legal team said.

How Twitter estimates spam

Twitter estimates that less than 5 percent of monetizable daily active users (mDAUs) are spam or fake. Under Twitter's definition, this is the number of people who use the site each day and can see ads, and users are considered "active" whether they post tweets of their own or merely view other people's tweets.

Musk has repeatedly claimed Twitter's estimate is wrong, but his assertions that the real percentage is higher are based on different types of calculations—such as the number of bots among all Twitter accounts (whether active or not) or the number of bots among accounts that post tweets every day. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton entered the fray on Monday, echoing Musk's complaints and demanding that Twitter provide the data on fake accounts.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal wrote in a thread on May 16 that the spam estimate is made every quarter and "is based on multiple human reviews (in replicate) of thousands of accounts, that are sampled at random, consistently over time, from *accounts we count as mDAUs*."

Each review is "based on Twitter rules that define spam and platform manipulation, and uses both public and private data (eg, IP address, phone number, geolocation, client/browser signatures, what the account does when it's active...) to make a determination on each account," Agrawal explained. Twitter has been doing this quarterly review for years, and the "actual internal estimates for the last four quarters were all well under 5 percent—based on the methodology outlined above," Agrawal wrote. "The error margins on our estimates give us confidence in our public statements each quarter."

Shareholder vote expected in July or August

As The Washington Post noted, "Twitter's leaders are skeptical of Musk's ability to use the firehose to find previously undetected information: The data stream has been available for years to the companies that pay Twitter for the ability to analyze it to find patterns and insights in the daily conversation. They, along with some analysts and Silicon Valley insiders, say that Musk is using the data requests as a pretext to wiggle out of the deal or to negotiate a lower price."

Meanwhile, "Musk's efforts to arrange new financing that will limit his cash contribution to his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter have been put on hold because of the uncertainty surrounding the deal," Reuters reported on Tuesday. Twitter is preparing to move ahead with the purchase and told staff on Wednesday that a shareholder vote on the sale to Musk will happen in late July or early August, Bloomberg reported.

"We believe this agreement is in the best interest of all shareholders. We intend to close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement at the agreed price and terms," Twitter said in its statement on Monday.

If Twitter filed false reports with the SEC they could be in some big time trouble.

Birds are better at tweeting.

Elon, if you buy twitter, delete it, it's crap.

Dark Poppy wrote:

Birds are better at tweeting.

Ahh ... Birds--tweeting .. I wonder if you're the first to ever put those two together .. ~Very clever~

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Elon, if you buy twitter, delete it, it's crap.

I don't wanna burst your bubble, but umm .. I don't believe Elon Musk frequents this board.. I highly doubt he ever will .. Addressing him here just seems kinda ...well, idiotic really

You can maybe try posting your useless advice to him on twitter .. Ya know...with tweets? ..at which "birds are better"? ..But i suggest you could *tweet* at him till you shit yourself and he'll never acknowledge your mealy mouthed existance,- much less consider your idiotic advice ..HTH