Admiral Beez
Superstar
Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew
Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew
A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.
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Are Social Media Websites like Facebook and Twitter becoming too powerful?
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AlbertC
Superstar
Guess we'll have to change this thread title to "Meta" as well. 
www.theguardian.com
Mocking Meta: Facebook’s virtual reality name change prompts backlash
The rebrand comes as the company faces a series of public relations crises
www.theguardian.com
christiesplits
Senior Member
This is concerning.
Doctors Blame TikTok for Surge in Teen Girls Experiencing Tics
Videos of users sharing their Tourette's, a nervous-system disorder that causes people to make involuntary movements or sounds, became popular over the pandemic.
www.thedailybeast.com
It’s like Alphabet and Google. And Facebook the platform remains while the parent company becomes Meta.Guess we'll have to change this thread title to "Meta" as well.
Mocking Meta: Facebook’s virtual reality name change prompts backlash
The rebrand comes as the company faces a series of public relations crises
Johnny Au
Senior Member
In other news, Kirby character Meta Knight would change his name to Zucker Knight to protest the new name of Facebook's parent company.Guess we'll have to change this thread title to "Meta" as well.
Mocking Meta: Facebook’s virtual reality name change prompts backlash
The rebrand comes as the company faces a series of public relations crises
gabe
Senior Member
The heads of the woke generation are exploding on right now.
www.ctvnews.ca
Elon Musk to buy Twitter for US$44 billion and take it private
Billionaire Elon Musk has reached an agreement to acquire Twitter for approximately US$44 billion, the company said.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
If you’ve got it spend it, I suppose. But Twitter’s annual revenue in 2021 was $5 billion (and $3.7 B in 2020), or about the same as the Olive Garden. Why would you trade Tesla shares for Olive Garden, I mean Twitter shares? This man’s going to end up like Howard Hughes.The heads of the woke generation are exploding on right now.
Elon Musk to buy Twitter for US$44 billion and take it private
Billionaire Elon Musk has reached an agreement to acquire Twitter for approximately US$44 billion, the company said.
gabe
Senior Member
It wasn't for financial gain, nor is he a superhero championing free speech, he bought twitter to satisfy his own ego and to further his power and influence.
This is the same guy who spent like 90 million dollars blasting a stupid car into outer space.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
I stand behind my Howard Hughes prediction.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Maybe not gain, but perhaps he's just discovered the financial loss.
Elon Musk considers ‘slight’ Twitter fee for commercial users
British MPs invite tycoon to discuss plans for platform in more depth before parliamentary committee
www.theguardian.com
afransen
Senior Member
I do think Elon is not being very rational buying Twitter. It's a toy and he can afford to buy it.
The second point is not really a valid criticism. That launch was a demonstration launch of their heavy booster variant. Rocket companies never launch commercial payloads on experimental rockets. When testing the rocket, they need to test it with some test mass. They can be (and usually are) boring and launch a block of concrete. Musk saw it as a clever marketing opportunity and launched a car. Much of Musk's success is inspiring bright people to work for his companies, and that explains a lot of the publicity stunts he engages in.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
I think it goes beyond being a toy - I think it is a way to get into the good graces of the Republicans should they retake power; plus he had been using his account as a way to pump the market (and mobilize his fans) - keeping in mind the former got him into trouble with the SEC.
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afransen
Senior Member
Musk has been quite critical of Trump, which doesn't really jive with him trying to ingratiate himself to Republicans.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
He really wasn't that critical of Trump (in fact, more than a few of his recent postings has been ingratiating himself to the Republicans) - and he has a whole bunch of things in the pipeline that is sort of dependent on at least non-interference from the latter should they take power.
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gabe
Senior Member
Elon isn't shy about what side he is on. What ever he said about Trump, the Republicans will welcome him back with open arms. Elon can help move the party from craziness of the Trump era back to what they do best. Making the rich richer and fooling people into thinking they are the party of the poor, middle class and freedom.