- Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
- Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
- Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.
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I said Musk would attempt to buy Twitter as soon as Reddit started posting about him being angry about the jet tracking.
People told me I was crazy, nobody would buy a social media platform just to suppress one account.
It was obvious - Musk behavior is clearly that of an insecure teenager, paired with a lot of money.
Called it! 100% called it!
Yep. I called that too. Talk about burning money…
Elon Musk burning billions of dollars to not have his public information publicly posted is one of the biggest Ls he’s ever taken and that’s a long list to fight to the top of.
And totally on par for him.
And you know the worst part about it? Burning that amount of money makes basically zero difference in his life.
I love that for him 🥰
Even when he wins he does it like such a loser. Fuck this guy.
Jesus Christ this is low point even for him.
I think he got talked into thinking the Twitter files were real.
LOL. There’s a silicon valley bigwig jet tracker that I see pop up on my Reddit account, and I’m not even that interested in it.
So is Taylor Swift going to buy it next?
Probably. She’ll change it to eX. Tweets will be ditty and you’ll be required to sing them.
She would keep the pay to play mentality though, as that’s how she got her start after all
snap snap snap and dance fool
I’d go for Swiffer.
YES
With that name, she’d clean up!
So the full story would be that Elon stayed up until 5:30 a.m playing Elden Ring in a Vancouver hotel - was very stressed, saw on Twitter that people knew he was raging in Vancouver based on the Jet Tracker - stressing him out even more -
Though “Fuck it, maybe I can’t beat Malenia, but at least I can beat this asshat on Twitter tracking me!”…If only FromSoftware had added some pay-to-win elements… Like “For A Small $1 billion Micro-Transaction you get the uber Malenia slayer sword!” -
We would be living in a totally different timelineSo… it was a really good call from the CEO to not remove the account?
I’ve read all his texts. He definitely bought it because d-list celebrities in his chat groups begged him to.
If they weren’t doing anything wrong they shouldn’t care who watches where they go, right?
What a snowflake
A visionary snowflake.
How is he visionary, exactly?
I mean, I didn’t think it needed an /s because does anyone take the term “visionary” seriously anymore?
My bad
this is so astoundingly petty, it might just be true.
although i doubt that’s the only reason he bought it, i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a major factor that got him serious about buying it.
Information control
Infrastructure control. Transportation, communications, banking, etc. He’s going after it all. I’ll never touch anything he’s even remotely involved in.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A particular beef involving a college student tracking his private jet was the catalyst for the billionaire purchasing shares of Twitter, commencing his takeover of the social media platform, according to a new book about the ordeal.
“Musk had also unsuccessfully petitioned Agrawal [CEO of Twitter at the time] to remove a Twitter account that was tracking his private plane,” says an excerpt from Battle for the Bird, a new book on Musk’s takeover, published by Bloomberg on Thursday.
The book seems to confirm that Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform.
Musk touts “free speech” as the main reason he bought Twitter, but the billionaire was actively trying to silence a college student he had a feud with before he was CEO.
The person behind the account, Jack Sweeney, is a college student who’s now famous for tracking the private jets of Musk and Taylor Swift.
Musk was heavily focused on promoting right-wing speech when he bought Twitter, which was lacking under Jack Dorsey’s management, but also on settling his internet beef.
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