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Elon: “Tesla stock is too high imo”

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This submission received a fair number of upvotes in the first minutes of submission and yet never reached the front page. It's hard to believe that this isn't interesting to HN so why did it disappear?

Is it TSLA fans just flagging this so it doesn't get there? is there some other process that decides posts like this won't get to the front page?

I think dang's comments on the previous thread explain it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23022631

Thanks, that makes a fair bit of sense and it's nice to see the likely reason more clearly articulated.

It's possible submissions from Twitter are penalized. If so, I wouldn't be surprised - a site that makes context and nuance all but impossible to convey and that optimizes for emotion and hot takes is probably not a good fit for HN's goals.

My personal opinion is that Twitter should be banned as a primary source.

HN rules say to post the original source. This is a rare case where the tweet is the original source.

Yeah, but it's a terrible source. The mods do sometimes replace original sources when a better one comes along, maybe if the only source for something is a tweet, that's a sign it shouldn't be posted at all.

Elon's tweet had a causal effect on Tesla's stock price. It is the best source.

I am not a tesla fan; I am now flagging anything posted about Elon Musk that doesn't directly have to do with his contributions to technology or business and contain some sort of reasonable content.

Right. It's time for this Twitter user to log off today.

The last few tweets are nuts even for Elon Musk, I think it’s likely his account has been hacked.

His tweets have been a consistent style and sentiment for the past few days.

If it turns out this tweet about Tesla share price is legitimately from Elon Musk, yikes the SEC will eat him up for sure.

he has done it before s well. SEC did not go behind him then.

From memory SEC fined Musk and Tesla and Musk tried playing hardball with them and the SEC immediately doubled the fine. They were willing to start an escalation and Musk finally backed down.

Sounded to me like he was not in a strong position last time and another blatant violation is unlikely to be an easy walk in the park.

The share price has immediately moved, this is just reckless behaviour.

Nah. Rocket man gets higher than Snoop Dogg.

Twitter exists for the rich and powerful to make complete asses of themselves.

And it's provided me with so much entertainment!

I'm finding some extreme schadenfreude in this considering in the Tesla Q1 2020 update thread posted just yesterday had people defending Musk's tweets because it didn't affect Tesla's stock and he was still earning them money.

Stock is now down 7%

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