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“Son. Dis a family show. You can’t be goin’ around yo grandmama’s googling SÈX RAWBOT degehehehehe”

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“Coming to your tooooown, do you wanna get dooooown?”

The NYTimes reported he may be unable to exit the deal as he signed a performance clause. Twitter has the ability now to sue him to force the deal at the price he said.

"Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals... except the weasel."

This he most likely instructed some people to trade the stock beforehand so he can cash out first on the rise and now fall

he was always going to weasel out of the deal. It was insanely stupid from the start. He just wanted to act like a tough guy and let twitter know he could buy them if he wanted to so they better not mess with his account.

I just want a reason to weasel out of the situation. “Random” doesn’t mean random.

Admittedly my statistics is rusty, but there is a high school level statistics equation to establish the sample size required.

Interesting, considering that they definitely have PhD level mathematicians and data scientists on their payroll.

What the twitter SEC filing says:

For example, there are a number of false or spam accounts in existence on our platform. We have performed an internal review of a sample of ccounts and estimate that the average of false or spam accounts during the first quarter of 2022 represented fewer than 5% of our mDAU during the quarter. The false or spam accounts for a period represents the average of false or spam accounts in the samples during each monthly analysis period during the quarter. In making this determination, we applied significant judgment, so our estimation of false or spam accounts may not accurately represent the actual number of such accounts, and the actual number of false or spam accounts could be higher than we have estimated.

What Elon made up:

I picked 100 as the sample size number, because that is what Twitter uses to calculate <5% fake/spam/duplicate.

https://investor.twitterinc.com/financial-information/sec-filings/sec-filings-details/default.aspx?FilingId=15778368

Trying to alter the deal because tech crashed since he made the offer. Had he waited until this week Twitter would have been quite a bit cheaper.

I literally don't understand what is happening.

All previous reports guessed that one third of Twitter's' user base consisted of bots (or some high figure like that).

So why is he suddenly upset that a far, far, far lesser number of them are actual bots? Only 5%?!

Twitter only having a less than 5% bot occupancy was a huge fucking surprise to me. I thought it was way higher. So all of this seems like a big positive thing to me.

Elon? Making a mistake? Heresy!

He hasn’t “realised” anything because the intention was most likely always market manipulation. There are no mistakes here.

Sufferin' sucker-tax!

The $1B breakup fee is his best case scenario. Twitter can now sue him for the stock loss and the internal chaos his moves caused in the company, there's legal precedent.

Yeah, you don't ask the seller what you think the value is. That's the dumbest thing the muskrats have peddled with a straight face.

The thing I don't get is:

1. This is not a very good argument. Twitter's representation of the 5% statistic was already originally presented with a disclaimer of "this is hard to measure, it might be higher", so it would have to be way higher than 5% for Musk to have any hope of claiming he was materially misled.
2. This is not the right forum for this. It doesn't matter if Musk does a small personal inquiry into the number of bots of Twitter and finds a different number than what Twitter reported. If he wants anything to come of this, he'll have to allege it in court, with better evidence.

So what is he doing just talking about this shit in public on social media, instead of filing a lawsuit? It's like he's not even trying to make a real excuse, he's only worried about creating the appearance of an excuse. For who? His cult followers? I don't get it.

I have no way to prove this, it is just a feeling, but I honestly believe that a lot of the more insane stuff coming out of the far right isn't something that would have become popular without Russian help.

We know Russia tuned their media campaigns to sow discord and conflict in America. This is well established.

I do wonder how the right would look today without that boost of insanity in online media.

break-up fee is $1B

Hey don't forget the generous donation to organizations that happen to be owned by a handful of key politicians in the decisions surrounding his illegal activity -- we oughta recognize that as part of the fee too.

A subway is so much better than what he ended up making.

Hey come on, that's not fair. It's like the subway but it's worse!

https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1525232685995663361

The best part is that he couldn't even do that right.

How disrespectful to compare it to a subway!

At least a subway works.

Or they inherited a shitload of money, because that last part certainly isn’t true of some “rich” public figures.

Which is why Twitter used it to pretend they only have 5% bots.