The richest man in the world, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, made an offer to purchase the Twitter platform for a price of $41 billion. The offer represents a value of 38% more than the current evaluation. [SEC FILING HERE] The offer is filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission proposing a full takeover for $54.20 per share in cash.
Within the filing Elon Musk states his intentions:
“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy. However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.
As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder. Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it. (SEC LINK)
What Elon Musk appears to be doing is perhaps the biggest story that few understand.
I share this perspective having spent thousands of hours in the past several years deep in the weeds of tech operating systems, communication platforms, and the issue of simultaneous users. What Twitter represents, and what Musk is attempting, is not what most would think.
In the big picture of tech platforms, Twitter, as an operating model, is a massive high-user commenting system.
Twitter is not a platform built around a website; Twitter is a platform for comments and discussion that operates in the sphere of social media. As a consequence, the technology and data processing required to operate the platform does not have an economy of scale.
There is no business model where Twitter is financially viable to operate…. UNLESS the tech architecture under the platform was subsidized.
In my opinion, there is only one technological system and entity that could possibly underwrite the cost of Twitter to operate. That entity is the United States Government, and here’s why.
Unlike websites and other social media, Twitter is unique in that it only represents a platform for user engagement and discussion. There is no content other than commentary, discussion and the sharing of information – such as linking to other information, pictures, graphics, videos url links etc.
In essence, Twitter is like the commenting system on the CTH website. It is the global commenting system for users to share information and debate. It is, in some ways, like the public square of global discussion. However, the key point is that user engagement on the platform creates a massive amount of data demand.
Within the systems of technology for public (user engagement) commenting, there is no economy of scale. Each added user represents an increased cost to the operation of the platform, because each user engagement demands database performance to respond to the simultaneous users on the platform. The term “simultaneous users” is critical to understand because that drives the cost.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter has approximately 217 million registered daily users, and their goal is to expand to 315 million users by the end of 2023. Let me explain why things are not what they seem.
When people, users, operate on a tech platform using the engagement features, writing comments, hitting likes, posting images, links etc, the user is sending a data request to the platforms servers. The servers must then respond allowing all simultaneous users to see the change triggered by the single user.
Example: when you hit the “like” button feature on an engagement system, the response (like increasing by one) must not only be visible to you, but must also be visible to those simultaneously looking at the action you took. If 100,000 simultaneous users are looking at the same thing, the database must deliver the response to 100,000 people. As a result, the number of simultaneous users on a user engagement platform drives massive performance costs. In the example above, a single action by one person requires the server to respond to 100,000 simultaneous users with the updated data.
As a consequence, when a commenting platform increases in users, the cost not only increases because of that one user, the cost increases because the servers need to respond to all the simultaneous users. Using CTH as an example, 10,000 to 15,000 simultaneous commenting system users, engaging with the servers, costs around $4,500/mo.
This is why most websites, even big media websites, do not have proprietary user engagement, i.e. commenting systems. Instead, most websites use third party providers like Disqus who run the commenting systems on their own servers. Their commenting systems are plugged in to the website; that defers the cost from the website operator, and the third party can function as a business by selling ads and controlling the user experience. [It also sucks because user privacy is non existent]
The key to understanding the Twitter dynamic is to see the difference between, (a) running a website, where it doesn’t really matter how many people come to look at the content (low server costs), and (b) running a user engagement system, where the costs to accommodate the data processing -which increase exponentially with a higher number of simultaneous users- are extremely expensive. Twitter’s entire platform is based on the latter.
There is no economy of scale in any simultaneous user engagement system. Every added user costs exponentially more in data-processing demand, because every user needs a response, and every simultaneous user (follower) requires the same simultaneous response. A Twitter user with 100 followers (simultaneously logged in) that takes an action – costs less than a Twitter user with 100,000 followers (simultaneously logged in), that takes an action.
If you understand the cost increases in the data demand for simultaneous users, you can see the business model for Twitter is non-existent.
Bottom line, more users means it costs Twitter more money to operate. The business model is backwards from traditional business. More customers = higher costs, because each customer brings more simultaneous users….. which means exponentially more data performance is needed.
User engagement features on Twitter are significant, because that’s all Twitter does. Not only can users write comments, graphics, memes, videos, but they can also like comments, retweet comments, subtweet comments, bookmark comments, and participate in DM systems. That is a massive amount of server/data performance demand, and when you consider simultaneous users, it’s almost unimaginable in scale. That cost and capacity is also the reason why Twitter does not have an edit function.
With 217 million users, you could expect 50 million simultaneous users on Twitter during peak operating times. My back of the envelope calculations, which are really just estimations based on known industry costs for data performance and functions per second, would put the data cost to operate Twitter around at least $1 billion per month (minimum). In 2021, Twitter generated $5.1 billion in revenue, according to the Wall Street Journal.
There is no business model, even with paying subscribers, for Twitter to exist. As the business grows, the costs increase, and the costs to subscribers would grow. So, what is going on?
The only way Twitter, with 217 million users, could exist as a viable platform is if they had access to tech systems of incredible scale and performance, and those systems were essentially free or very cheap. The only entity that could possibly provide that level of capacity and scale is the United States Government – combined with a bottomless bank account.
If my hunch is correct, Elon Musk is poised to expose the well-kept secret that most social media platforms are operating on U.S. government tech infrastructure and indirect subsidy. Let that sink in.
The U.S. technology system, the assembled massive system of connected databases and server networks, is the operating infrastructure that offsets the cost of Twitter to run their own servers and database. The backbone of Twitter is the United States government.
There is simply no way the Fourth Branch of Government, the U.S. intelligence system writ large, is going to permit that discovery.
BREAKING: As @elonmusk offers to buy the rest of @Twitter a legal source tells @FoxBusiness @SECGov and @TheJusticeDept have launched what he described as a "joint investigation" into a myriad of Musk regulatory issues primarily involving @Tesla https://t.co/TDFLED1XuI
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) April 14, 2022
This guy gets it. 👇 This is the bigger picture dynamic. https://t.co/fsSuMo8Lwl
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 14, 2022
“There is simply no way the Fourth Branch of Government, the U.S. intelligence system writ large, is going to permit that discovery. “
Hence the need to have it taken completely private.
“A legal source tells FoxBusiness that the SEC and “Justice” have launched what he described as a “joint investigation” into a myriad of Musk regulatory issues primarily involving Tesla.”
Message: “We Care.”
About our Propaganda Arm.
This is truly comical given ALL the money Comrade Obama allowed to go out the door with each Tesla Car that was purchased for years and millions of dollars Obama gave Musk to take off-shore to develop energy technology.
The Bolsheviks running the DOJ and SEC are retaliating against Musk for his attempted Coup at Twitter!
Reporting Misinformation to the EI-ISAC
By EAC.gov cisecurity.org/ei-isac/Page 1 of 1
https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/partners/EI_ISAC_Reporting_Misinformation_Sheet102820.pdf
Fuv++g lying rat scum.
Has no one noticed that musk controls all the privatized things that the government used to control, like space, NASA, etc. Now we have no say over what happens in space.
He is the front man for the shadow government using private shadow corporations.
Get a clue bentrod.
“Along with the news that mega-billionaire Elon Musk had made an offer to buy Twitter in full came the predictable screams from leftists and others who can’t bear the thought of a free-speech champion owning their No. 1 means of censoring political opponents (even after tut-tutting for years that private companies can do whatever they want).
Included in that group are the warmongers of the word, the chief of them being Washington Post opinion columnist and neocon Max Boot who wants you to please stop using that term. It seems like just yesterday that Boot was fist-pumping forever wars, supporting the deadly war in Libya, pushing for the United States to invade and occupy Iraq, and covering for President Biden calling for regime change in Russia.”
In Elon’s Twitter Takeover Bid, Neocons Found An Invasion They Oppose (thefederalist.com)
Read the book Lift Off by Eric Berger and the Elon Musk biography by Ashley Vance, you’ll understand it’s the exact opposite. He keeps Space X private so they can innovate, ie they don’t have to think of the investors when making decision and can do what’s best for the goal: cheap space flight for the masses.
As if NASA ever did anything useful in space exploration in the last 53 years…It’s Musk ore nobody…
Well, generally I agree. But credit where credit is due. On the 2nd try, they did get Hubble right, and it’s proved to be one of the biggest advances in science in the modern era. Other than that though, yeah, NASA has been crap. It makes me weep to consider the lost and wasted opportunities, and what a different and better place humanity would be in, if those opportunities had been seized.
But really, most of the blame doesn’t even go to NASA. Politicians historically have been reluctant to fund space research. “All that money, for a few rocks.” And mostly the public saw it the same way, so there was no clamor to continue the development of the Apollo program, and beyond. And then came the Space Truck, AKA the Space Shuttle, which is about as unsexy as you can get. After the thrill of the first few landings, interest quickly waned. And then came the accidents, and you know the rest of the story.
I’m a fervent advocate of the commercial aspects of space, so I absolutely support Musk, and any other privateers that are trying to give it a go. Musk is in a perfect position to show the world that there’s money to be made in space, huge amounts of money, and then the stampede will begin. To the benefit of everyone on the planet.
He’s a fascist. That’s all.
Biden sure is.
No, the US Government is a Fascist (government). Many individual state Governments are Fascist Governments. So far, Florida is not and maybe Wyoming too.
So WHO is this guy really? If we can just for a minute shut our ears to all the ones wishing for Captain America to fly in and save America; and think about what is really being done RIGHT IN FRONT OF US; any guesses?
I noticed; that’s why my question – is he simply a more sophisticated controlled opposition wherein those being controlled cheer on the installation of their new oppressor?
At this point the question is – how does he deal with this move when it affects his personal family and fortune? The answer to that will speak volumes.
Though I doubt seriously if deep state will let this go on just so long before we here Mr. Musk say, in advance, “I didn’t kill myself”.
Winklevoss, one the twins who claim to have been cheated out of the Facebook beginnings by Zuckerburg,
and whom is another billionaire, chimes in.
Plot is thickening!
Forbes India – Winklevoss Brothers: They Say Facebook Was Their Idea But They Lost The Battle For Ownership. Now They Are Bitcoin Billionaires
DARPA started “Lifelog” but canceled it on February 3rd, 2004, after criticism concerning the privacy implications of the system.
Mark Zuckerburg started Facebook the next day.
Coincidence?
Everybody knows; There are no coincidences.
Titanic . . . deck chairs
Strike up the band!
Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. all these companies have a great military and intelligence usage. It’s likely that the black budgets Financed and gobbled up these corporations very early on.
We are given individuals as front man, but what is really going on?
Oh, you know how much we love our “brands” — I mean look at Aunt Jemima, Betty Crocker, Quaker Oats…
Would we love our Internet or social media as much as we do if there was razor wire edging and mil-sec images floating on the screen? lol
I find it very easy to connect them all to the government, specifically DARPA. The advertising revenue alone would be a great source for off-budget, or dark, projects.
Look at “NewsGuard” it’s how they control comments and the news
I’ve thought this about disqus for awhile. They can ghost and control perception with comments while also building profiles on us. Remember Obama’s database, with “everything on everybody, like has never been done before……”
Soon we’ll all be digitally cuddling up to the likes of bot dogs n cats – MIC style!
Watch out though .. when they start to hiss and growl, then its time to make haste behind your nearest blast wall.
Just wait till they send out those inquisitive ‘spiders’.
I always thought that the collective of FIRPTAG (if you like those, I have others..) was a blackhat borg biz model. It appears to coincide with the general slide in what is colloquially known as civil society, timeline wise. I don’t think that the Socio/Psycopathy in force now wasn’t nearly as bad BEFORE the ‘digital’ age made it’s debut, even during the tumultuous 60s/70s..
Maybe humans aren’t ment to handle this type of tech – the power to f##k things up × billions of distracted hominids!
I always assumed that the advertising was to camouflage the largest shareholder.
The Gov didn’t gobble them up, they are part of the original recipe.
Review all of the front mens ‘background story’.
See how believable they now seem to you.
Yep..they all started out of..a garage..a basement..a dorm room..etc..etc
Now might be the time for all American patriots to BUY Twitter stock. With Elon Musk, patriots need to become major shareholders of the company and we need to be there at the annual stockholder meeting and vote all those bastards off the board.
This isn’t about a financial investment, it’s about an investment in our democracy.
No, now is the time to sell and short the stock, making it worthless and then the big investors will be screaming for the Musk deal at much less than what he has offered. Jumping in and buying will drive up the stock price and act as a deterrent to selling to Musk. The Shares Outstanding are 800.64M.
Small retail investors would never have enough shares to vote anyone off of the board. Shareholders can vote by proxy and don’t have to show up at the meeting to vote. A few hundred shares or even a few thousand shares you may own are useless in voting. Good luck in getting institutional investors to vote your way.
I tend to agree with 4sure. Musk says he has a Plan B, to be revealed later. He might have already bought a huge pile of puts, giving him the right to require the seller of those puts to take his shares at a specified price, within a specified time period, below where it was trading when he bought them, but way above where they’ll be if he sells all his shares and walks away.
I may be conservative, but I don’t see how a company that makes no profit is worth $45B on $5B in revenue.
But who knows?
This is a litmus test for the government control mechanisms. If Intelligence, bank and investment entities hold on to Twitter it becomes obvious to most people that Twitter will never be a free space for discourse and kills their value and accelerates the exodus. Reducing the value of the company and potentially starting the death tolls.
If they let go for fear of killing the golden calf, then Elon takes ownership and control, bringing a level of free speech and truth back to the people and the intelligence community losing influence.
When does a bird (twitter) sing?
When it is free or dying!
Absent the Gov’t connection / sponsorship to Twitter, Dan Bongino made an interesting analysis today and he said that Musk is in a no-lose situation. When he walked thru the scenario, it made perfect sense.
Then I read this article.
I would assume a certifiable genius like Musk KNOWS the Gov’t is stealthily hosting / sponsoring Twitter (and probably the other social platforms as well) and this is his bid to smoke them out. If my assumption is correct, I hope he is ready for some serious investigations of his businesses.
The Deep State plays for keeps and they don’t take prisoners.
Musk knows how they operate, he’s been working with them for years. Let’s pray Musk really has had enough.
Agree I said the same thing to a friend earlier today. They are going to give him the Trump treatment in spades. At least Trump they were able to toss out of office. They are not going to tolerate Musk going this route whatsoever. He will be arrested, wrapped up in all kinds of BS litigation and will be lucky he doesn’t get the Andrew Breitbart treatment.
As Trump well knows
Did everyone forget the shadow corporations of the 1980s and did everyone believe that didn’t get much worse but just died a natural death? All these billionaires running all these corporations that have a great military and intelligence usage are just strawmen. Government is farming out everything to corporations which they created as shadow corporations.
I would call the following companies shadow corporations.
Amazon.com: Had to be because they never made a profit for a long time yet found money to buy out some of the competition. They should have been dead as part of the 2000 dot com bust
All the big banks including investment banks.
Twitter, Instagram, Google, Apple, Facebook and other social media companies: All of them are controlled by the government.
Wal-Mart, KMart, and Target: all of them were founded in 1962 and were undergoing expansion by 1969.
Wow. I’ve just been blown away by what I read. It all makes sense. And it’s amazing.
Welcome to the Treehouse!
An offer they can’t refuse. If Elon is rejected and “Reconsiders his position” the stock tanks, shareholders sue for boards judicial misconduct or… they find another buyer who is willing to offer a (policing company) on free speech to spend $1.00 over asking then they have still lost. Twitter is worthless and any buyer besides Elon who will turn this company around knows this.
this was a brilliant move on behalf of Elon.
This is not a hostile takeover, it’s an offer on condition. If the condition is not met, then… see ya, I’m out.
Your move Twitterati.
Correct. Musk is in a no-lose situation and he basically caught the Deep State with its pants down. Now they are in catch-up mode.
Its gonna get very interesting….
Just wait til Americans find out that the Feds are flying illegals from Central America and islands into the US to go to work for Amazon….and at $15/hour, no less.
Could that be the reason why there’s such a push for Amazon to unionize?
Dems need their “base” no matter how it’s crafted…
The criminals in DC can’t allow this…free speech is anathema to them….
Ever so grateful to SUNDANCE.
I’ve been wondering how is it that Twitter hasn’t shut down Elon Musk’s account. Now, I know. “Damned if they do and damned if they don’t.” If they do, it will be the most sensational lawsuit in America’s history. Elon probably already has the draft of the lawsuit, just in case.
I figure Elon’s interest was kindled when Twitter shut down Donald J. Trump’s account and soon after, the accounts of many of his followers. So, this has been in the works since early 2021 and Elon has all the angles covered.
The Twitter Board won’t be getting any sleep this weekend.
I heard an interview with Musk recently, maybe a month ago. Say what you will about him, but he has quite a sense of humor.
He seemed particularly perturbed at Twitter taking down Babylon Bee. He’s a big fan. I’m not so sure that wasn’t his red line moment.
or was kindled when Jack Sweeney started tracking and posting the whereabouts of that beautiful G65
Tons of nut jobs out there…. Elon is freaked if :
“Don’t risk taking a picture of @ElonJet
from exclusive airport areas when you work at the airport or FBO. Elon’s team has contacted the employers of those who have and many have been threatened to be fired.”
If Elon is successful in converting Twitter to a free discourse communication platform and its popularity surges, what will happen to President Trump’s Truth Social investment ?
However, given the suggested involvement of the U.S. gov’t as a main server provider, the sale might never happen. The alleged DOJ regulatory investigations of Musk’s operations are probably only a first stage effort to protect the gov’t collusion.
Exactly 💯 💯
Government Globalists Deep State will protect “their” interests indeed.
Dangerous games being played ▶️
👉⚡️👿☠️😵💫👈
Dangerous, indeed.
Deep State to Musk: “Hey, nice electric care company you have there. Be a shame is something happened to it.”
I’m sure Elon has wargamed this out, just not sure how far–or how far he is willing to take it.
that would be ironic if something happened to Tesla considering the big push for EVs with “build back better.” Although optics seem not to give this administration pause.
The government has been sidelining Tesla. Tesla isn’t unionized and the big EV subsidies can only be used for cars manufactured in union shops.
yes now that you mention it I recall Brandon omitted mentioning Tesla recently in a tweet about EVs
He he – all the original owners of Tesla were California leftists. My guess would be that about 80% of Tesla car owners are leftists.
This has really triggered them!
Even Wisconsin leftists own Teslas.
Good point. I’m assuming Musk has, as you say, wargamed this out with the predictable moves the establishment will try to bog him down as he takes, at each turn, an unexpected course.
Look first for multi-layers of investigations and legal entanglements from the DOJ and court system. Watch the establishment get bogged down in their own morass – trying to stop Musk with what they control. Meantime, he controls a bunch of money, and will win the PR battle despite the propaganda blitz thrown against him.
My best guess is that Musk sees this coming and it will be interesting to note not only his counter move(s) but their timing.
Get your popcorn.
He has factories on 3 continents pumping out cars.
More specifically Germany, China, and the USA.
If the globalists / Deep State can STEAL a presidential election in which the REAL winner won in a near landslide, they can most certainly take down an uppity billionaire.
He’s smart but does he understand this is great reset WEF level and the US IC is rogue and its own shadow government?
Well, if Musk doesn’t understand, he soon will.
You knew the moment the DOJ jumped in to go after Musk, that the deep state is running Twitter. If Twitter refuses to sell, and Musk can find a honest judge to accept his lawsuit as a stock holder for fiduciary negligence, Twitter is dead meat. He has offered way more than the publically traded company is worth.
perhaps Elon has something on that angle, too . . .
I am looking forward to the day that the entire country wakes up to what a totalitarian-wanna be nerd our Attorney General has been ever since he was in high school
ask:
what is Mitto?
Maybe if Twitter were uncensored and literally free speech, posts of fresh air and truth would once again bless America and the world. One such post could be a fairly simple link to Hunter’s computer. That could cause an upheaval comparable to the late 18th century, when the king was widely seen as insane and the tsarina visited Potemkin villages.
They won’t let it happen
He knows that
We all know that
How utterly disappointing to learn the US Deep State is summarily ignoring … nay, CANCELLING American’s Constitutional Rights. There is no way for the ROTTEN actors in our government to hide behind … “Twitter is a private business, and has no obligation to uphold Constitutional Rights”. The government IS Twitter … if this is TRUE. What the HELL has become of my Country?
Exactly 💯 💯
Sundance neofascism model explained as a 2 headed monster-
Government runs Globalists Corporations/
Globalists Corporations run Globalists Government.
👉Looks like our Constitutional Republic doesn’t get to play in this demonic👿 game because ours is a Constitutional Republic founded on the Bible with Life, Liberty and Freedom preeminent throughout the union of states.👈
✅️That’s why America 🇺🇸 is currently run by antiConstitutional installed so-called leaders and Bureaucracts.
IMHO, not actually disappointing . . . they are running true to form . . .
what is really disappointing to me is the silence from Congress . . . are they all a lot of scared bunny rabbits hiding in their broom closets?
A very good article, with great information: it explains a lot! Thank you! But while you faithfully post every day the Lord’s prayer, and show clearly by your line of thinking your personal character as one who fears the Lord; I wanted to remind everybody here, that there is no animating of a body but by the spirit in it; and we should not look on things by their outward appearance; but judge righteous judgment. Christians are often simple concerning evil, because they (we) don’t naturally tend to the evil; but Jesus warned us abundantly about what kind of world we are left in; and to be wise and prudent as the serpents, and innocent as doves. If a man thinks that any man is going to save us from what God has judged and determined must come, his heart has departed from the Lord, and has gone back to the world. There is no salvation promised to those who turn back; but to those who endure to the end.
There’s a thread for that.
Yes there is, but the message is that nobody can save you but God. The hard truth is that both Elon Musk and Donald Trump are sinners like you and me. The only person that is not a sinner is Jesus Christ and this week we are remembering the time he gave up his life to die on a wooden cross so that we might live for the death and resurrection of Jesus is the victory over death that the world needed.
Amen Jessy. Whether people believe it or not, we all belong to the Lord Jesus Christ; He is our Maker, our Saviour, and our Judge. The world hates Jesus because He testifies of it, that its works are evil; and they love the evil and the darkness, and can’t stand to be exposed by God’s Light. But we come to the Light for the very reason of bringing everything to the Lord to be exposed and judged, that by taking our stand with Him in the truth, we know that He has promised deliverance and healing and salvation for ever in Jesus. The Lord will call everyone to give account of what they did in this life. The Lord has made us His watchmen on the walls. We see the enemy coming, and it is our duty to sound the trumpet and warn the people. If they don’t pay any attention to the warning, their blood is on their own heads: they were warned, and did not prepare.
41 billion to expose? When everybody knows, all tech globalists are subsidized.
Everybody here knows, but most of the world is CLUELESS.
For instance, they think the Russian people don’t like this guy.
When in reality he has about a 78% public approval rating.
Kind of like NK’s leader has a 98% approval rating?
Nope, not like that at all.
Either stock goes up due to Elon Musk’s proposal and musk profits greatly OR stock prices tank and Musk buys it at a bargain price after which the stock goes back up and Musk profits greatly.
The only.way Musk loses is if he gets Epsteined.
Musk buys twitter.
Twitter crashes and burns.
Musk takes a 40 billion dollar write off.
????????
💥Elon is disturbing all of the uniparty Republicrats and Democans.
😳That is a dangerous game. Elon must’ve decided what is left of our Constitutional Republic is on a final lap and it’s worth his efforts plus he’s already probably gamed out where he fits in the Globalist Reset and he’s not going down without a well thought fight.
😎He’s probably got several simultaneously moving efforts along with this Twitter play ▶️.
🤔Some already mentioned by other commenters maybe even a surprise or 2.
Stonk!
Gosh, the rabbit hole just goes on and on.
This Twitter/Musk drama is gonna have skyrocketing effects on popcorn sales and it’s market shares…Get in now on the ground floor…I will, or my names not Orville Redenbacher and in todays culture , I could verywell be…
There sure are a lot of brain-waves being tossed around today……. “what-if-innn”
With all that, I am still amazed at GOD’s timing and His use of one of His creatures to send a visual message to the world by executing a poop-drone-splat-attack to “Brandon’s” chest.
Our God is grrrrrreat and He has a sense of humor to boot.
Babylon Bee says the birds gonna speak at the next CPAC…Stay tuned.
Exactly 💯 💯
Now we know why the installed administration had a fake Whitehouse press stage built.
To protect against the birds 🐦.
Confused O’Biden was in N. Carolina today reading out the usual BS.
Could the bird crapping on Biden have been God’s humorous harbinger of things to come regarding the Twitter bird this week? LOL, God has EVERYTHING planned out. I can only hope this means that Twitter will not be paving the way for Biden anymore and he’d best carry an umbrella at all times. :>)
If there are local food markets in your areas, help them out by buying from them. Then take what you have and this depends on the items, prep them, freeze them.
Blanche your potatoes first, the freeze them. Prep what you can, pastas, beans, white rice, things that can last many years.
I’m a big believer in staple foods, fruits are great but but you need the basics.
all of our eggs that our chickens lay, we freeze dry them, powder them and pack them away for years if needed.
same for potatoes, mashed, seasoned, freeze dried, and packed away.
you won’t even notice the taste, it’ll be just like you made them 5 minutes ago.
It’s even bigger than that though..
Too many secrets, hidden just below the surface.. It wasn’t enough listening in on your house calls. You had to have a phone with you at all times.
Now you have phones that know where you are, what you are doing and listen to everything said around you.. so it can help you get through the day.. But that wasn’t enough either..
Twitter for your comments, Facebook for the rest of your life… Was it enough? never
But now all that beautiful data is drying up.. People are not commenting like before and the rest is highjacked by the woke mob. You can’t sell marketing data on people angry about the cost of everything. Now that they are losing ground.. They need to stage a diversion.
Are you not entertained?
The knives are already out!!
Musk’s Twitter offer rejectedSaudi prince Al Waleed bin Talal, who owns 5% of the social media giant, wants the Tesla CEO to cough up more money
https://www.rt.com/news/553899-elon-musk-twitter-rejected/
https://valiantnews.com/2022/04/gab-makes-counteroffer-torba-invites-musk-to-join-board-use-starlink-to-build-a-free-speech-internet/
No question that the Social Media companies have agreements with our Goverment agencies to monitor us, our thoughts, actions and predict actions. Certainly there has to be very powerful systems and technology to crunch through that data to achieve this. No SaaS company build and maintain a private cloud these days, it all done through AWS , MS or Google. They build and license the backend infrastrucre so SaaS providers dont have to keep up, update and license that technology directly. It is a great service and can scale easily when adding more users. I see your point on the monetary aspect. Expanding DB and Storage can get very expensive….its quite possible that the Gov. is offsetting the costs to keep Twitter open and so they don’t burn throught their cash that would lead to layoffs etc. Aren’t contracts auditable….would be nice to see those.
As far as Musk goes. What is his motivation then to expose whats under the hood of the company. I am not sold on him. Is he calculating or just winging it….he is very deceptive and I cant get a read on him. Back to his motivation. Is his companies profitable? Where does his money come from? CCP? Is that true? If he is really going to expose Twitter as a Gov. co-operation….who benifits? The Gov. would never allow Musk to take over Twitter if your point above is valid. Maybe that is why the SEC is opening up a case.
I dont trust anything that is being spun or presented to us, that is the lesson learned based on the last 20rs.
If I had a spare 41 billion…. I would not buy Twitter……. I would buy a country in its entirety
Buy a country?
Don’t think a wise billionaire would buy a HUGE headache like that.
✅️💲America 🇺🇸 has been bought and sold several times recently by Globalists Corporations and installed Leaders and Bureaucracts.🤑💲
Maybe it’s as simple as that.
Elon for President on a new independent party???
Sundance, your final thesis may be absolutely correct – that the US Government controls Twitter.
However, I must say that your reasoning towards that is incorrect. I’ve personally designed systems that allow millions of transactions per second with hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users. And that was 20 years ago. And the operations were very profitable.
Trading systems are an example – with online trading, there are tens of millions of daily users in the US alone performing billions of transactions daily. Probably at least an order of magnitude higher than Twitter.
If you need to reduce your costs, please feel free to contact me. No charge.
“When people, users, operate on a tech platform using the engagement features, writing comments, hitting likes, posting images, links etc, the user is sending a data request to the platforms servers. The servers must then respond allowing all simultaneous users to see the change triggered by the single user.”
I think you are probably right as the simultaneous users are not usually all that many, sometimes just about none, for a given thread/topic.
The vast majority of everyone on Twitter at a given time ( simultaneous users) does not get an update on the vast majority of changes by single user, thus keeping the amount of computer power way lower than it would be otherwise..
For example: if I am on Twitter commenting about astronomy and you were on Twitter commenting about golf, we would not get any updates on each others comments and likes, etc.
Big waste of time and taxpayer dollars on investigations into the success of an entrepreneur.
When other automakers run out of chips, Tesla still has them. Big Brother seems to hate successful people.
Musk seems to like the numbers 420…
The Big Lie about Surveillance isn’t coming; it’s already here and been active for some time! Twitter, Facebook, IOS, SnapChat, TikTok, Android, Windows10, GE, News Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, CBS, Google, Media Matters, etal.
The folks that know about the shared tech infrastructure ( US Gov / Big Tech ) are under certain Gov. clearances and can’t say.
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Perhaps Musk himself was never bound up under such clearances, just personnel under him.
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Or Musk’s clearances are specific to the tech he was selling the government ( Cars, batteries, Aerospace ) but not iP backbone.
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In the iP backbone and data center world there are a few sharp folks that know who are not under Gov. clearance restrictions.
To me, this is the greatest news I’ve heard since the election crashed us.
If we don’t have freedom of speech, we are screwed.
If they steal the elections (watch True The Vote), we are screwed.
Vanguard just announced they bought stock to equal a 10.3% interest in Twitter and are now the largest shareholders. Many on Twitter now being redpilled about who the owners of Twitter actually are. Interesting to watch 🙂
https://twitter.com/search?q=VAnguard&src=typed_query
Elon’s offer, $54.20 a share, is an echo of Musk’s infamous, ill-fated 2018 proposal to take Tesla private at $420 per share. (For the uninitiated, 420 is slang in cannabis culture, and often used by Musk in more jokey contexts.)
Thanks; appreciate understanding today’s lingo.
“We live in a world where corporations and oligarchs tell government what to do”. Yes.
“Elon Musk is an oligarch who believes in personal freedom.” Yes?
No.
Elon Musk is an oligarch with a messiah complex who is a TRANSHUMANIST and is deeply in bed with the US and Chinese governments.
But for some reason many many “conservatives”, including Tucker Carlson, believe Musk is a force for good.
Our freedoms come from God, not Elon Musk.
If we rely on Musk we officially make him our savior. He’s Tech Obama.
Government could’ve avoided this with section 230 reform. If Musk takes over Twitter, this will never happen.
Be careful what you wish for.
Elon Musk is as dangerous as Klaus Schwab.
“Elon Musk is as dangerous as Klaus Schwab.” – Mike
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Wrong, and way out there in leftfield.
Showman Elon now has many of the same enemies as Trump.
I’m sticking to my (unfounded) little theory that Musk and PDJT have a plan…..absorb Truth Social into a Musk-owned Twitter or ditch Twitter shares and help PDJT get TS to be the replacement. President Trump has been really quiet regarding this……just my thoughts. We’ll see. 🍿
No. Trump will not president again: he unleashed the Covid 19 vax on the world. Musk has a messiah complex, he’s not going to work with anyone (except the US and Chinese governments). Musk is not pro-America. He is pro – Musk.
Going private? Let’s see how the big asset managers respond. If they shoot for 51% we know who runs things.
https://trendingpolitics.com/giant-corporation-swoops-in-to-block-elon-musks-hostile-takeover-of-twitter-knab/?utm_source=whatfinger
2025 – January 21, 2025 WALL SREET JOURNAL:
” Elon Musk has congratulated Ron DeSantis as the new president of the US and Twitter announced they have accepted Elon Musk’s offer of $3.65 per share. Mr. Musk had offered $54.20 in 2022 but was turned down. Talk about stupid.
Mr. Musk is able to offered $3.65 due to the horrendous ‘BIDEN BEAR MARKET’ (people call it) that started in October, 2023 and now has the Dow Jones Industrial down 60% with the high flying NASDAQ stocks down 86%.”
This one has my head spinning – I mean even more!
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/2139/freedom-great-twitter-wars
Dude! Mind blown … excellent analysis.