Twitter C/D

assuming that data is still stored somewhere behind the scenes regardless of it being 'deleted' (I work in software and we never actually 'delete' anything), maybe they're worried the FBI is going to be interested in that data and it'll make Elon's Nazi shit look bad

thats the old thinking, the new way is to delete everything, remove all data, no more data

the backup was in the data center that elon just unplugged without powering down

Shout out to all the single and available and definitely real young ladies liking all my current posts, thank you for your support!

twitter has been on the naughty step with the FTC for about 5 years and, to first order, is not allowed to delete anything.

Quite broken again for me today. Will display ads and people's retweets okay, but any other tweets in my feed are devoid of any actual text and are displaying that unix epoch timestamp thing (31 Dec 69)

nice

surprised he hasn’t changed it to 20 april 1969

Surprised he hasn’t changed it to 4/20/1888

fyi for those interested and who isnt in epoch time often when you see a date displayed on a website/computer/whatever device its getting it by subscribing to a service that tells it how many milliseconds have elapsed since new years 1970 then the computer does a calculation to convert that into a human readable time format, so when you see that new years eve 1969 date it means the process is failing

Dud.

Epoch time =Stooges time, gotcha

lol

Flavor Flav sings the National Anthem at the Milwaukee Bucks game: pic.twitter.com/zsiE4LszFU

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 30, 2023

need to get chuck d's review

OK he doesn't sing as well as most but I was won over by this, Flav clearly really truly loves the National Anthem and frankly so do I.

Flav should sing that national anthem at every game, if we're going to keep doing that

I was actually at this game, judging by the reaction of the crowd nobody knew he was doing it, and it was very difficult to not laugh when it showed the players trying hard not to crack a smile

oddly enough he was *not* the halftime performer so apparently they flew him out just to do this? I don't know I have so many questions about this

thinking about flav on the halftime performer circuit doing 911 is a joke with custom lyrics for the home team

I was completely taken out by “the bombs burs- *BREATH* -sting in air”

need to get chuck d's review

― lag∞n, Sunday, October 29, 2023 9:30 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3G3tpB5sdY

$19 billion seems generous. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/technology/x-twitter-19-billion-dollars.html

In the paperwork for the new stock grants, X said the equity would be offered at $45 a share in the form of restricted stock units, which employees can earn over time.

granting RSUs suggests that elon plans to re-IPO twitter in the next couple of years

Or just maybe he's just trying to look as if he's compensating his employees without giving them anything of value.

Also - giving them strike prices that appear to be wildly over valued might do just that. If Twitter is indeed worth less than half the purchase price (a fairly uncontroversial estimate), those stock grants are going to be worth far less if they convert to cash at some point, and this means the income tax paid on the $45 price might potentially offset a massive amount of the actual income gained from the resulting value converted, especially for large amounts. Yikes.

Just to reiterate more clearly, employees will owe income tax on their grants at the $45 valuation offered, regardless of how much money they can get out of the equity when it's eventually liquid. So if the income tax you pay on the grant exceeds the value of the equity later on (say it dips to $10 a share for an IPO or a sale), you might actually lose money exercising said equity. Reverse startup indeed.

working until its just elon in a garage

xp Unless they're subject to a "substantial risk of forfeiture," which (colloquially) everything associated with Musk is.

the equity would be offered at $45 a share in the form of restricted stock units, which employees can earn over time.

If I were trying to reverse engineer Musk's thinking based solely on the $45/share detail, I would say he believes that by pegging the shares to a wild overvaluation he will create incentives for his workers to strive heroically and increase their productivity so much they bring Twitter, er, I mean X, back up to where he can dump it on the market without incurring massive losses. You know, his usual 'galaxy brain' worms.

if/when these RSUs vest the employees will pay real taxes on them, so they have real 'value'.

i assume he's handling stock comp and liquidity events exactly as it is handled at spacex.

now obviously he's the CTO, so this is all above his pay grade. but maybe that's what his boss is doing.

problem there is that a spacex-type liquidity event would require investors to agree with the value of this $19 billion valuation - maybe he can arrange a share sale to elon fanboys who will buy at any price

You make them sound like suckers.

$19 billion seems generous. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/technology/x-twitter-19-billion-dollars.html

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, October 30, 2023 5:43 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

generous is right.

snap is worth 1/3 what it was in spring 2022. twitter is subject to the same secular forces. we used to predict twitter's earnings by looking at snap's the week before. their stock prices moved in lockstep. so best case twitter has lost the same fraction of its value as snap, and is worth 1/3 its spring valuation.

but twitter has also lost effectively all its revenue via the nazi stuff. on a good day it's maaaaybe worth 1/6 its spring 2022 value. if you thing musk paid what it was worth that implies it's worth like 7bn. if you think he overpaid (he thinks so himself) it's worth less than 5bn.

as a business its worth zero now tho im sure it has some assets that could be sold

that sink for instance

Fidelity Investments is claiming it's in the $15B range now. Still seems high, but they have a $300M stake in the original deal

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/9jUgoyCI0biXF_dJMnYlUM8iYiE=/232x0:3965x2800/1200x900/media/img/mt/2017/10/RTX1RDRD/original.jpg

it's worth 0 owned by musk but part of the valuation is the idea that if he sold it to someone who veered hard and course corrected it could partially recover. depends to what extent you think elon caused the decline (and if so whether it's reversible) or if it was already inevitable before he bought. also trump's second presidency will be good for twitter (and media generally)

yeah idk once the death spiral starts its hard to stop (why they call it a death spiral)

i do think he caused it fwiw

Of course he did. No one could do this by accident.

opening twitter for one second

The chant at Liverpool Street as many have pointed out is indeed not "intifada" but "ceasefire now" . Apologies.

— Simon Schama (@simon_schama) November 1, 2023

it's Free Parking all over again

Apologies.

You can tell that came straight from his heart. it is practically a mirror image of it.

This account may enter a period of inactivity as I am being indicted for securities fraud at 4PM tomorrow. Stay tuned for further updates.

— crazy ass moments in nu metal history (@numetal_moment) October 31, 2023

new revenue streams

Emails obtained by Forbes reveal that a team within the company, known as the @Handle Team, has begun work on a handle marketplace for the purchase of account names left unused by the people who originally registered them. In at least some cases, X/Twitter has emailed solicitations to potential buyers requesting a flat fee of $50,000 to initiate a purchase.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/03/elon-musk-x-has-started-selling-off-old-twitter-handles

i wonder if he gave $50k to the guy who had @X originally

Twitter 'For You' currently showing me one single post, Corbyn at the rally. has been like this all day.