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X outage breaks all outgoing links, again (www.theverge.com)
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X outage breaks all outgoing links, again::An outage on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, caused the site to display an error message when users tried to click outgoing links.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

killing twitter is the goal

Please explain the following:

  1. Why is killing Twitter worth half of his entire fortune?
  2. Why would he attach the X brand to it, something that has been his personal obsession throughout his life, if the goal was to kill it?
  3. Why isn't it dead yet? He owns Twitter outright. He's not the CEO. He's not a major shareholder. He's the owner. Full stop. If the goal was to kill it, he could fire everyone, shut the doors and turn off the lights. So why hasn't he?
[–] lando55@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he could fire everyone, shut the doors and turn off the lights.

Can he? Genuine question, since I'd be interested to know if he'd be subject to litigation from the shareholders

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

By this person's logic, Musk was willing to tank 200bn of his net worth to kill twitter. Why would he give a single flying shit about a lawsuit or four? At best he'd owe them back the value of their investment, which is apparently, according to the insane logic of the "He's deliberately killing twitter" crowd, small change to see a single social media site dead.