Elon Musk made it home yesterday with a special toy. Yes, the blue bird toy is his now. What he plans to do with it remains cloudy but we know that he has picked a title “Chief Twit” to organize the toy-space. It looks amazing when you have a $44 billion toy to play with. Certainly, he will hope he can make tons of friends to join to play.
But as he looks over his toy, the reality of the world of business comes into play. He has delivered a poison pill to some Twitter executives. Yes, the same people who went to court to compel him to buy Twitter. But in the way it works, most times, after that purchase, those people usually lose their jobs: “Musk didn’t waste time firing CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, general counsel Sean Edgett, head of legal policy, trust, and safety Vijaya Gadde.”
This bird will fly because Musk has shown already that he can move news. If Twitter is the modern global village square which hosts the mind of the generation’s finest innovator, that alone is a reason for many to converge. The challenge for the bird, though, is that when you let loose a bird, it may decide to pick the wrong tree to perch.
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Twitter has not been generating revenue for the EU, etc via penalties and fines (ask Facebook, Google, etc). Depending on what Musk does, this bird can become a profit-center for Europe!
As a kid, I used my catapult to hunt for birds. Going to Tantuta stream, you could see many birds. However, if you want to improve your odds of getting one, you have to aim at Kpaakpaa tree which had many birds and was the tallest tree around. Indeed, now that the richest man is in charge of Twitter, watch the high voltage regulatory searches on this blue bird because it cannot hide anymore.
Yes, the European Union has a new profit-center to balance the budget with those fines.
US SEC Announces the Delisting of Twitter from New York Stock Exchange
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Twitter is not making plenty money, and it’s not even high on advertising, so on what grounds actually will EU be writing its fat fines? Musk will simply isolate their IPs, and they will stop tweeting in Europe! It’s a digital town square, and not a profit or cash out centre, so any government that gives Musk unnecessary headache, he should simply blacklist their IP address, since they have issues with ‘free speech’.
The people who might not be happy with Musk at Twitter are perhaps as big as those who love it, so we cannot bend to hysteria of one camp, forgetting that millions are also happy with Musk.
It’s a free world, and those who feel too angry and distraught with current reality should consider moving elsewhere, other people deserve to celebrate too.
This world is getting filled with lots of petty and angry people, if there’s no universally agreed rule on everything that is fair and just, then nobody should play god.
Congratulations to the man Musk, he’s the real guy.