The Tesla CEO’s hyperfocus on acquiring the San Francisco-based social media giant intensified after Parag Agrawal, its former CEO, rejected Musk’s request to block an account run by 21-year-old Jack Sweeney that used publicly available data to track Musk’s private jet.
“The billionaire started buying Twitter shares shortly after Agrawal denied his request,” according to an excerpt from “Battle for the Bird” by Bloomberg reporter Kurt Wagner. The book suggests that Musk’s motivation to ban the jet-tracking account was the primary driver behind the $44 billion purchase in November 2022, which left many industry analysts perplexed.
Nah. He just tried some good ol fashion market manipulation by saying he would by Twitter in public. And since he had a non-significant amount of shares he was basically forced into the deal or being caught red handed doing illegal stuff openly. Plain old greed + stupidity.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/elon-musk-twitter-battle-bird-18663113.php
Couldn’t Sweeney just post on a different service?
Sure does
I will say, the 45th President “just posts on a different service” too - nobody sees it, really.
Wait does that mean he’s still posting on X? Musk didn’t ban him?
Guess the delay was enough to escape further wrath!
The @elonjet@mastodon.social account is more or less real time, right? It doesn’t have the delay?
No, he definitely bought it because he was forced to after trying to fuck witt it by making claims.
Nah. He just tried some good ol fashion market manipulation by saying he would by Twitter in public. And since he had a non-significant amount of shares he was basically forced into the deal or being caught red handed doing illegal stuff openly. Plain old greed + stupidity.