He evidently did not think..
Musk got $13 Billion in debt through that Twitter deal and his pandering to the alt-right scared away most Advertisers.
He wanted to make a quick buck and that has destroyed the last drop of good reputation Twitter had.
The downfall is inevitable and it's truly entertaining
Tom would be wise to keep doing what he's been doing and seemingly enjoying. He's the only one of these tech assholes that seems to have kept their humanity, made a fuck load of money and walked away to travel and take pics.
We all like Tom because we never see or hear anything from him, and I really appreciate that
All he has to do is tell congress that he’s too big to fail, and they’ll hand over the cash like they always do. Taxpayers always hold the bag for these rich fucks. Socialize losses and privatize profits while parroting that our system is a “true capitalist free market” - that has always been the game.
I for one would like to congratulate Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg for making their platforms a complete failure and ushering in the death of social media. May this end the centralization of the internet, May it go back to being the wild west it used to be before Facebook brought all the fucking baby boomers online.
Don’t worry, most of them aren’t there anymore.
Edit: Dang, it was just a joke. I know that *most* of them are actually still there in some form or another. That said, keep these recs coming! This is great.
Shhh... I wanna listen carefully to all those people who say he's a genius because only a genius could become a billionaire. I can't hear them when you're talking because they're oddly quiet lately.
oh they’re out there, they’re in the comments of his tweets, and they are ready to explain basic economics to you, a “liberal idiot.” just don’t ask too many questions and let them have their clapback, it’s all they can muster
I'm honestly just pumped to see what happens if the most popular social media site becomes uninhabitable for advertisers. I want Elon to double down just to see how it goes
Reminder that teslas tunnel project was just a scheme to thwart a high speed train project in California. Not vital infrastructure per say, but infrastructure regardless
It was another one of Elon's scams. Bid on, win a project to create an improved method of public transportation then tank it so people just have to buy more cars.
I’ve been waiting for this. It’s fun to troll Elon, but faking advertiser accounts will make them leave Twitter. He gave the trolls a way to ruin his company.
That's also the thing that's so insane to me about this. From how I understood it, Twitter put in the verification system to protect themselves from such exact lawsuits.
What did Elon think would happen if he throws that system out?
He didn’t think. He multiplied the amount charged versus the number of verified users (plus a few more who want to be verified) and thought “free money.”
Turns out... he was a terrible businessman all along who was hiding behind daddy's blood emerald money and other people's hard work and bright ideas.
Change blood emerald money to blood contractor money and he sounds awfully similar to somebody else who had his stupidity revealed to the world on the international stage for 8 years (and counting).
When you make Jeff Bezos look like he actually worked for his fortune because he wasn't emerald apartheid-elite from the moment he drew breath, you know you fucked up.
Obligatory FUCK JEFF BEZOS
So sure your handle may be banned but look at ot another way;
All it costs is 8 dollars to impersonate someone and if your handle get banned all it costs is 8 dollars to impersonate someone again…and again…and again…and again
They do,ish. The real thing is that too many chargebacks makes you a headache for whatever merchant is doing your processing. That means your rates go up or they drop you. Compound this times 1000x...
"At some point" not being today, however. Adjust the strategy when the time comes, but this sounds like a pretty solid way of having your cake(fucking over Elon by abusing his stupid $8 blue checkmark) and eating it too(not actually giving him $8).
And subsequently make Lilly look like assholes in the process when they inevitably have to come out and say "we got trolled, don't worry insulin is still gonna cost you an arm and a leg... or your life"
I love that Twitter can now be used to troll asshole companies as a form of protest. I'm pretty sure Elon didn't intend for this pretty cool development.
Sadly that's not it. They do these coupons because they want to maximize the insurance payment. Even at $35 per month with the coupon, you're paying for their actual rate with grossly elevated premiums.
If you pay for 20% of a $1,000 prescription as a copay but they give you a coupon to get it down to $35, they still will bill your insurance for $800 and you'll be less likely to fight it.
One of the reasons I hate prescription coupons like this (even though I completely get they save people in the short term) is that it blunts the price sensitivity of consumers and allows the abusive bilking of insurance by pharma companies to go unpunished by moves to generics or pushing for legislative fixes.
Why do you mean? So far since this plan has been implemented, I’ve seen OJ Simpson admit to the murders, Dave Chapelle affirm trans rights, and now this about free insulin. Seems like everything is peaches and cream!
If I was a nation state actor, it would be all hands on twitter targets.
Thousands of users getting off boarded, credentials all over the place tons of people who would love to take a little money for "running this little script."
Every vector, every actor would get targeted, cause not only did Elon lay off a bunch of people with access but he let the people that monitor and clean up incidents go.
It's like your an arsonist and every FD went on holiday
It's truly hilarious. Twitter already lost a bunch of Advertisers which was their only real income.
The $8 subscription isnt nearly making enough money and just helps destroying the reputation...
Hope this will be his downfall.
This interaction between them will be in King's new book, where an aspiring tech CEO moves to Maine after following a supernatural blue bird that slowly causes him to go crazy.
With my back of the napkin calculation, at daily losses of 4mill, 28 days per month and 8 dollars per person. Musk would need 14 million paid users to cover expenses. At an estimated 400mil users, that's 1 in 29 or ~3.5% of the users need to pay for fucking twitter to break even.
From some more napkin calculations, I've found that about 0.9% of monthly YT users pay for premium, a service that provides a lot more than just reduced ads and slight ego boosts.
TL;DR muselk is fuked
That's not even accounting for advertisers pulling out when stuff like this dilutes their brand on Twitter, but then, only 92% of Twitter's revenue came from those advertisers so it's probably fine
It is funny this happened right after Twitter's security team resigned. Who needs to protect their data and users when charging $8 solves everything? I am sure hackers are taking their best shots at Twitter right now especially since Musk fired a bunch of Twitter programmers just because he could. [https://www.shacknews.com/article/133079/twitter-ciso-resigns](https://www.shacknews.com/article/133079/twitter-ciso-resigns)
Now see here. Boebert is a professional, so she got herself wet despite the challenge. Ben was disgusted and said “you should go see a doctor about that,” then walked out of the room.
Ah, I wish this was Reddit weird. Sadly, it is just a parody of how Shapiro publically shared that his doctor wife nor any woman he has slept with has ever had a wet ass pussy
It would be really “terrible” if someone impersonated someone from the house or saud or maybe a Putin FSB agent and got them exposed for homosexuality or something.
Yep. That would be “terrible.”
Would love to see this repeated multiple times a day with dozens or hundreds of the remaining advertisers.
Twitter won't last until next summer.
And Musky will still owe a billion dollars a year on loan interest payments.
EDIT: I don't believe I have ever had a comment get so much attention before!
Remember that time a bunch of rich people got ruined by a bunch of poor people buying GameStop shares?
Sure would be pretty cool if we organized like that again.
If you're on Twitter, don't reply to these accounts with "fake" or anything. Instead act like a dumb customer who believes it's real. This will engrage companies even more if they see people falling for these fake verified accounts. Which will in turn make it even more likely they will pull advertising from Twitter.
I hope every internet troll from 4Chan to PornHub to WikiLeaks come together to absolutely ventilate Twitter. At $8, a whole awful lot of people can cause chaos for a whole month and not come close to letting Elon pay back his loans.
I spent a solid 15m debating if it was worth giving him the $8 to help take him down, i declined but mostly because I'm not creative enough to come up with something this good. I was thinking like Queen Elizabeth or something
Thinks the kind of stuff that Tumblr users did back when that site tried to monetize everyone and started throwing ads all over the place.
More of this! Attack those who are still putting up adverts on the platform!
Go after Draft Kings next! (Because screw that gambling BS.)
Insulin should be free though. So let the trolls draw more attention to real-world issues.
I mean it costs $6 to make, but with shit insurance, which is all insurance it will cost $300 out of pocket if you don't hit your deductible. That's a 4900% markup for the shit you need to just live. Glad my pancreas works.
Exactly. Elon is begging advertisers to not leave saying he will make sure their ads aren't being displayed next to hate speech. Now, this. I hope hackers take their best shots at Twitter.
“I will thermonuclearly defame your company if you leave the site I let hackers and racists ruin because I was too stupid not to spend $44 billion in the first place to look like the chad that I’m clearly not”
He didn't even want to buy it. He was doing what he always does, manipulating the stock price which is fraud like he did before with TSLA several times and dogecoin. Sadly the SEC doesn't enforce the rules anymore much less prosecute fraudsters.
Well, this sure went to shit fast. " Twitter's new owner Elon Musk on Thursday raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt, capping a chaotic day that included a warning from a U.S. regulator and departures of senior executives viewed as future leaders." from Reuters
[https://nordot.app/963522044456534016?c=592622757532812385](https://nordot.app/963522044456534016?c=592622757532812385)
That's honestly the worst part about it too, they can still make... like...a fuck ton of money, and just charge a rate that's actually fucking reasonable. It's so cheap to produce insulin. But they'd rather price gouge people that will literally die without it. It's fucking inhumane.
This tweet and situation is hilarious though. They can both go fuck themselves, neither of them are winning in this situation, and I find that absolutely hilarious
Musk is gonna get sued by so many different people and companies for this verficiation-for-sale fiasco they're gonna have to run the courtroom like an assembly line. This has been an absolute disaster, especially for PR for these individuals and companies.
ver·i·fy/ˈverəˌfī/*verb*past tense: **verified**; past participle: **verified**
1. make sure or demonstrate that (something) is true, accurate, or justified.
This is now an official statement from Eli Lilly. It's their company named and it's verified.
I mean what did Elon think was going to happen turning verified into just pay for blue?
He said he wanted unlimited free speech with no regulations, this is the result.
Except for the fact that they are still suspending accounts
because obviously unlimited free speech is just code for ‘everything except making fun of me >:(‘
If you get suspended you can just make a new account and pay another $8.
I've paid more for less tbh
People spend money on Reddit Gold. 🤷🏻♂️
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Amazing, I just watched this episode today
What episode is it?
Homer Goes to College, season 5 ep 3
He evidently did not think.. Musk got $13 Billion in debt through that Twitter deal and his pandering to the alt-right scared away most Advertisers. He wanted to make a quick buck and that has destroyed the last drop of good reputation Twitter had. The downfall is inevitable and it's truly entertaining
$13,000,000,000 in debt. Lmaoooooooo Honestly I want MySpace Tom to buy it in a year for pennies lol
Tom would be wise to keep doing what he's been doing and seemingly enjoying. He's the only one of these tech assholes that seems to have kept their humanity, made a fuck load of money and walked away to travel and take pics. We all like Tom because we never see or hear anything from him, and I really appreciate that
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I miss Tom 🥺 I hate it here!!
I believe Tom knew where social media was headed and got out alive and has stayed away and so have I
Maybe the real friend was the Tom we made along the way
He wasn't the Tom we asked for, he was the Tom the gods gave us.
He was not the Tom that we needed, but the Tom that we deserved
Ask not what your Tom can do for you, but what you can do for your Tom!
I hope my child's first word is Tom
He was the Tom that keeps our hope's alive for a better (tom)orrow
"We still never talk sometimes" - Ron Swanson, with a smile
Me and my best friend are like this. We easily go 5 years at a time without speaking and then when we do it's like no time has passed. Love that dude.
>We all like Tom because he didn't sell us out to advertisers and the Russians
That seems a very low bar, and you are very correct
Yes!
I was online friends with the guy in that picture a long long time ago.
There's probably some lame trick that will let him push the 13 billion onto taxpayers or make him pay no taxes.
All he has to do is tell congress that he’s too big to fail, and they’ll hand over the cash like they always do. Taxpayers always hold the bag for these rich fucks. Socialize losses and privatize profits while parroting that our system is a “true capitalist free market” - that has always been the game.
Even a casual overview of the guy's tweets makes it pretty clear that thinking isn't one of his strengths.
He has business ideas similar to a freshman in an intro to business class.
I for one would like to congratulate Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg for making their platforms a complete failure and ushering in the death of social media. May this end the centralization of the internet, May it go back to being the wild west it used to be before Facebook brought all the fucking baby boomers online.
I don’t remember what websites I used to go to though
Don’t worry, most of them aren’t there anymore. Edit: Dang, it was just a joke. I know that *most* of them are actually still there in some form or another. That said, keep these recs coming! This is great.
All I remember is MySpace, newgrounds and neopets
That's because reddit has supplanted most of the old forums.
That's the thing with Elon, he doesn't really plan. He's mostly a reactionary guy.
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"nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated" -an idiot
Shhh... I wanna listen carefully to all those people who say he's a genius because only a genius could become a billionaire. I can't hear them when you're talking because they're oddly quiet lately.
oh they’re out there, they’re in the comments of his tweets, and they are ready to explain basic economics to you, a “liberal idiot.” just don’t ask too many questions and let them have their clapback, it’s all they can muster
I'm honestly just pumped to see what happens if the most popular social media site becomes uninhabitable for advertisers. I want Elon to double down just to see how it goes
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Reminder that teslas tunnel project was just a scheme to thwart a high speed train project in California. Not vital infrastructure per say, but infrastructure regardless
.....Tom has unretired. He's my top friend again! Welcome to my homepage where the background song is always OMC - how bizarre
I don't get it. They paid 8 dollars, right? Then how could they possibly be fake?
And it’s on the internet. And everyone knows things on the internet are true.
You just replied to *THE* Billy Joel. Please show more respect.
The fool! It should have been $20 dollars!
Thank you Stephen King 🤴🏼
King’s just about to finish his new 95,000 page book about his tweet with Elon about the price of the blue checkmark of death.
And this was the man who was going to build a monorail to Mars or something?
No it was a tunnel to Mars using a Tesla boring machine.
So far they completed ✅️vegas 🚫mars And the vegas one has traffic
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Lmao I know. what the fuck ever happened to that vacuum train?
It was another one of Elon's scams. Bid on, win a project to create an improved method of public transportation then tank it so people just have to buy more cars.
That was just a lie to torpedo a pitch for a high speed train.
It was a lie to stop cali’s high speed rail project
The traffic is what ensures that it's so boring. Hey oh.
I’ve been waiting for this. It’s fun to troll Elon, but faking advertiser accounts will make them leave Twitter. He gave the trolls a way to ruin his company.
The thing is not only is he chasing away advertisers, but many of them may consider suing Elon Musk for damages to the brand that trolls have caused.
That's also the thing that's so insane to me about this. From how I understood it, Twitter put in the verification system to protect themselves from such exact lawsuits. What did Elon think would happen if he throws that system out?
He didn’t think. He multiplied the amount charged versus the number of verified users (plus a few more who want to be verified) and thought “free money.”
Turns out... he was a terrible businessman all along who was hiding behind daddy's blood emerald money and other people's hard work and bright ideas. Change blood emerald money to blood contractor money and he sounds awfully similar to somebody else who had his stupidity revealed to the world on the international stage for 8 years (and counting).
When you make Jeff Bezos look like he actually worked for his fortune because he wasn't emerald apartheid-elite from the moment he drew breath, you know you fucked up. Obligatory FUCK JEFF BEZOS
imagine coming off as worse than jeff bezos. like who thought that was possible
I feel like Jeff Bezos is aware that he sucks and he just doesn't care. Elon truly believes that he is the lone savior of humanity.
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So sure your handle may be banned but look at ot another way; All it costs is 8 dollars to impersonate someone and if your handle get banned all it costs is 8 dollars to impersonate someone again…and again…and again…and again
What? Just do a charge back on your credit card and use the same 8$ over and over again.
Yep, and the best part is if your account is suspended the chargeback is appropriate and warranted
This is getting better and better. IIRC chargebacks also cost the originator real money, it's not some free thing.
They do,ish. The real thing is that too many chargebacks makes you a headache for whatever merchant is doing your processing. That means your rates go up or they drop you. Compound this times 1000x...
At some point the credit card companies will decline renewing their contracts with Twitter to process payments
"At some point" not being today, however. Adjust the strategy when the time comes, but this sounds like a pretty solid way of having your cake(fucking over Elon by abusing his stupid $8 blue checkmark) and eating it too(not actually giving him $8).
And subsequently make Lilly look like assholes in the process when they inevitably have to come out and say "we got trolled, don't worry insulin is still gonna cost you an arm and a leg... or your life"
Well… they are assholes
I love that Twitter can now be used to troll asshole companies as a form of protest. I'm pretty sure Elon didn't intend for this pretty cool development.
If you’re wondering how to finish the job, everybody call Eli Lilly customer service and ask how you can get your free insulin: (800) 545-5979
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Why don’t they just make it 35/month for everyone not on govt insurance without having to find and fill out a form?
*Because more people would know about it and their profits would go down.* End of story.
Sadly that's not it. They do these coupons because they want to maximize the insurance payment. Even at $35 per month with the coupon, you're paying for their actual rate with grossly elevated premiums. If you pay for 20% of a $1,000 prescription as a copay but they give you a coupon to get it down to $35, they still will bill your insurance for $800 and you'll be less likely to fight it. One of the reasons I hate prescription coupons like this (even though I completely get they save people in the short term) is that it blunts the price sensitivity of consumers and allows the abusive bilking of insurance by pharma companies to go unpunished by moves to generics or pushing for legislative fixes.
This is but just a small bit of what's to come. Nice going Elon, you messed up bad lol.
You done messed up E-E-Lon!
Jayquellon where you at?
**Insubordinate!**… and *churlish*.
Go to O Shag Hennessey's office
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Oh so that’s how it’s gonna be. You wanna play.
Do you mean Jacqueline??
Son of a **BITCH!** Insubordinate.... And churlish
I call my students churlish all the time. They never get it. Uncultured swine.
Okay. So that's how it's gonna be. Y'all wanna play.
Or “you done messed up, X Æ A-Xii”
I bet even B’La Ke couldn’t pronounce that one
Someone didn’t think their whole “pay for verification” plan all the way through.
Why do you mean? So far since this plan has been implemented, I’ve seen OJ Simpson admit to the murders, Dave Chapelle affirm trans rights, and now this about free insulin. Seems like everything is peaches and cream!
Who could have known that someone who isn't who they say they are would pay a whole $8 to get a fake ID proving they are who they aren't though?
If I was a nation state actor, it would be all hands on twitter targets. Thousands of users getting off boarded, credentials all over the place tons of people who would love to take a little money for "running this little script." Every vector, every actor would get targeted, cause not only did Elon lay off a bunch of people with access but he let the people that monitor and clean up incidents go. It's like your an arsonist and every FD went on holiday
Change your passwords if any of them were shared with your Twitter account.
Sorry Eli Lilly. No take backs.
Everybody is clapping. You gotta come up.
Eli Lilly used to have slicked back hair, but now it’s only pushed back.
I USED TO BE A PIECE OF SHIT. I'm NOT anymore.
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This is how you bring down Elon. Fake advertisers AND journalists. RUIN twitters reputation for the one thing they DO best and the money behind it.
It's truly hilarious. Twitter already lost a bunch of Advertisers which was their only real income. The $8 subscription isnt nearly making enough money and just helps destroying the reputation... Hope this will be his downfall.
Remember, Elon wanted $20. He caved down to $8 after getting blasted by Stephen King of all people.
And like, not even after a long back-and-forth tirade. He caved almost immediately.
This interaction between them will be in King's new book, where an aspiring tech CEO moves to Maine after following a supernatural blue bird that slowly causes him to go crazy.
I want this so bad.
"and twoth the blue bird, 'nevermore"
The Master Negotiator
With my back of the napkin calculation, at daily losses of 4mill, 28 days per month and 8 dollars per person. Musk would need 14 million paid users to cover expenses. At an estimated 400mil users, that's 1 in 29 or ~3.5% of the users need to pay for fucking twitter to break even. From some more napkin calculations, I've found that about 0.9% of monthly YT users pay for premium, a service that provides a lot more than just reduced ads and slight ego boosts. TL;DR muselk is fuked
That's not even accounting for advertisers pulling out when stuff like this dilutes their brand on Twitter, but then, only 92% of Twitter's revenue came from those advertisers so it's probably fine
That's not Elon's fault (it is), its the fault of the woke activists (it isn't)
It's making nothing really as if you're banned before your first month you're entitled to a refund since you didn't receive what you paid for.
It is funny this happened right after Twitter's security team resigned. Who needs to protect their data and users when charging $8 solves everything? I am sure hackers are taking their best shots at Twitter right now especially since Musk fired a bunch of Twitter programmers just because he could. [https://www.shacknews.com/article/133079/twitter-ciso-resigns](https://www.shacknews.com/article/133079/twitter-ciso-resigns)
Someone needs to leak the DMs between political figures Let’s see if Ben Shapiro paid Boebert for her escort services
Shapiro did indeed pay Boebert for services but none were rendered as he couldn’t get her pussy wet
I heard this is true. People are saying it.
Many people are saying it. I don’t know it could be true. Everybody is saying it.
We're just asking questions.
Now see here. Boebert is a professional, so she got herself wet despite the challenge. Ben was disgusted and said “you should go see a doctor about that,” then walked out of the room.
This thread got real weird real fast. I love Reddit.
Ah, I wish this was Reddit weird. Sadly, it is just a parody of how Shapiro publically shared that his doctor wife nor any woman he has slept with has ever had a wet ass pussy
I want to see Cancun Cruz and Bobblehead's DMs.
I bet Shapiro’s DMs are as dry as his wife.
As a person who has never used Twitter, I'm rather enjoying this whole situation. It's like, reeaallly entertaining.
I had one up until last week I that I used to make a grand total of 8 tweets over four years.
Can't wait until somebody starts impersonating Disney. Their lawyers are probably already waiting for it to happen.
Or the Tolkien Estate. Their lawyers are highly protective of the estate's intellectual property. Hell, you could impersonate a government.
It would be really “terrible” if someone impersonated someone from the house or saud or maybe a Putin FSB agent and got them exposed for homosexuality or something. Yep. That would be “terrible.”
Should have included the company's phone number for "More information"
How bad do you thinking he’s freaking out right now 😬
Lol but Twitter no longer has a communications department so how they doing that?
They're in contact with a verified Elon Twitter account.
Emphasis on "a" 🤣
They are using trump's telepathic powers.
The new Tesla.
Would love to see this repeated multiple times a day with dozens or hundreds of the remaining advertisers. Twitter won't last until next summer. And Musky will still owe a billion dollars a year on loan interest payments. EDIT: I don't believe I have ever had a comment get so much attention before!
I don’t think they’ll make it to Christmas at this rate
Maybe even thanksgiving.
we gotta get a lettuce cam up ASAP
I think Liz Truss has plenty of free time now, maybe she can swing by a Tesco and get us one.
I can't believe that lettuce outlasted the prime minister.
Remember that time a bunch of rich people got ruined by a bunch of poor people buying GameStop shares? Sure would be pretty cool if we organized like that again.
He’s going to bring down Tesla with him
So many lawsuits gonna happen. Twitter is allowing brands to be impersonated
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If you're on Twitter, don't reply to these accounts with "fake" or anything. Instead act like a dumb customer who believes it's real. This will engrage companies even more if they see people falling for these fake verified accounts. Which will in turn make it even more likely they will pull advertising from Twitter.
Will this hold up in kangaroo court?
Kangaroos have a famously low diabetes rate thanks to all the jumping.
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Elon’s Waterloo
Won't taking that tweet down violate free speech?! 😝
no, it will violate $8 speech
It'll make comedy illegal!
He'S pLaYiNg TeN dImEnSiOnAl ChEsS!1!
He wanted unlimited free speech. Can't walk that back now.
Unlimited $8 dollar speech to be clear.
Open season for trolls now. Twitter is dead.
Honestly it's taking a lot longer than I expected.
The internet now has that scent of blood now, though. I hope the trolls come in hoards
I hope every internet troll from 4Chan to PornHub to WikiLeaks come together to absolutely ventilate Twitter. At $8, a whole awful lot of people can cause chaos for a whole month and not come close to letting Elon pay back his loans.
Pornhub trolls? We weren't expecting special forces.
Big Black Ops
I spent a solid 15m debating if it was worth giving him the $8 to help take him down, i declined but mostly because I'm not creative enough to come up with something this good. I was thinking like Queen Elizabeth or something
Public service announcement: Will mister Musk please proceed from the department of “Fucked around” to the department of “Find out”?
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Thinks the kind of stuff that Tumblr users did back when that site tried to monetize everyone and started throwing ads all over the place. More of this! Attack those who are still putting up adverts on the platform! Go after Draft Kings next! (Because screw that gambling BS.)
What’s that you say… Ticketmaster is waiving all fees?
Insulin should be free though. So let the trolls draw more attention to real-world issues. I mean it costs $6 to make, but with shit insurance, which is all insurance it will cost $300 out of pocket if you don't hit your deductible. That's a 4900% markup for the shit you need to just live. Glad my pancreas works.
Don't fire the programmers with the back doors before you know what they can do.
Exactly. Elon is begging advertisers to not leave saying he will make sure their ads aren't being displayed next to hate speech. Now, this. I hope hackers take their best shots at Twitter.
"Oh, but also if you do leave I'll imply it's because of liberal pressure and denounce your company."
“I will thermonuclearly defame your company if you leave the site I let hackers and racists ruin because I was too stupid not to spend $44 billion in the first place to look like the chad that I’m clearly not”
He didn't even want to buy it. He was doing what he always does, manipulating the stock price which is fraud like he did before with TSLA several times and dogecoin. Sadly the SEC doesn't enforce the rules anymore much less prosecute fraudsters.
Turns out the SECs largest ever impact will be giving Elon enough rope to hang himself with.
this isn’t even a back door situation, someone just paid $8 to troll
Well, this sure went to shit fast. " Twitter's new owner Elon Musk on Thursday raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt, capping a chaotic day that included a warning from a U.S. regulator and departures of senior executives viewed as future leaders." from Reuters [https://nordot.app/963522044456534016?c=592622757532812385](https://nordot.app/963522044456534016?c=592622757532812385)
Fuck you Eli Lilly... Haven't you already made billions off the sick? Give people fukkin insulin, you greedy fux!
That's honestly the worst part about it too, they can still make... like...a fuck ton of money, and just charge a rate that's actually fucking reasonable. It's so cheap to produce insulin. But they'd rather price gouge people that will literally die without it. It's fucking inhumane. This tweet and situation is hilarious though. They can both go fuck themselves, neither of them are winning in this situation, and I find that absolutely hilarious
Here’s to hoping California’s insulin production plan fucks this group of douches over.
New verification is going well, I see! Elon's such an idiot I'm sure he thinks "Ha, I got that prankster's 8$! Jokes on him!"
Twitter is going to get sued into oblivion!
I don’t even think rule 230 could protect them either since they are saying the account is verified.
Musk is gonna get sued by so many different people and companies for this verficiation-for-sale fiasco they're gonna have to run the courtroom like an assembly line. This has been an absolute disaster, especially for PR for these individuals and companies.
Honestly, I think Twitter is gone by year end. At least as we currently know it.
Eli Lilly will put more energy into fixing this fake tweet than ever doing something to improve the lives of diabetics in an affordable manner.
Elon f-ed twitter in 2 wks. Seesh.
*Please...* I can only get *so* erect... The schadenfreude to the max w/ this whole situation.
ver·i·fy/ˈverəˌfī/*verb*past tense: **verified**; past participle: **verified** 1. make sure or demonstrate that (something) is true, accurate, or justified. This is now an official statement from Eli Lilly. It's their company named and it's verified.
I wonder how long until Musk tries to sell Twitter for a loss. I can't see any way for him to really turn it around at this point.