So, “I agree to do what I already agreed to do as long as you stop suing me for it”?
Regarding the information leakage, does this signal that Mr. Musk treats people poorly in his private dealings?
It's all damage mitigation at this point.
Its an AND not an OR. He either proceeds with purchase and loses billions, or proceeds with discovery/trial, has personal info exposed, and is then forced to proceed with purchase and lose billions. He's tried to stall proceedings so far, but has reached a legal dead end.
See: Facebook's declining usage, and the rise of TikTok.
Social networks are all quite replaceable, there are no exceptions.
Twitter won in its micro blogging space (there were numerous competitors for a brief time, way back), however it has never been a stellar product. It can and will be replaced if Musk turns it into a disaster.
It will be funny of the Blue Checkmarks have to form their own social media platform - or in incredibly irony - end up in one of the "right wing" platforms as a refuge of free speech.
Some people have a lot more influence than others, and the influential people are disproportionately on twitter.
Also politicians.
That is the whole problem though, isn't it? A few hundred random people on Twitter are often more than enough to manufacture a wave of articles across multiple news websites and newspapers.
Twitter isn't important, the problem is that influential entities think that Twitter is important (and representative).
Which makes it important..
https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/1/23381257/elon-musk-text...
>"Within days of the announcement that the Twitter board had accepted Musk’s $44 billion offer, Benioff, who is currently worth more than $6 billion, sent Musk a cryptic text about his own vision for the platform, writing on April 27, “Happy to talk about it if this is interesting: Twitter conversational OS—the townsquare for your digital life.”
Wow. This is like something right out of an episode of Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley." These people might be extremely wealthy but jeez they are basically buffoons. I'm guessing Beinoff only shares his "A" material with Musk and he obviously felt that "Twitter conversational OS" was worth sharing. You couldn't get any more Gavin Belson than either "conversational OS" or "the townsquare for your digital life.”
[1] https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23108357/redacted-ver...
Actually, scratch the reputation bit. That's already toast.
Kudos to Twitter.
Checkmate.
If you're Musk or an apologist, how do you spin this in a way that doesn't say "Yeah, they were completely right and I had no basis for my claim"?
Would they force him to buy Twitter? Pay a fine?