Elon Musk is officially buying Twitter for $44 billion, and everyone on Twitter is losing their minds! I’m still in-shock that the Twitter CEO and Board accepted his offer to begin with, but everybody has a price at the end of the day. Elon Musk announced that Twitter will become a private company once the transaction is finalized, and this may be the start of many drastic changes for the social media app.
Elon Musk’s biggest goal is to fix the current state of “free speech” on Twitter. Elon Musk previously stated in his release to buy the company that he believes:
“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” said Mr. Musk. “I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.”
( PR Newswire)
Elon Musk has huge aspirations for changing Twitter for the better, and I’m in full support for what he has in store. Hell, anything would be better than the clusterfuck Twitter currently is. Even now, the Twitter Puritans are tweeting that Twitter is going to become a racist, right-wing, homophobic platform with Musk incharge, but these people wouldn’t even know what free speech is if it punched them in the face! Canceling people who don’t agree with your opinion isn’t free speech!!
Musk’s plans include creating a new algorithm so users can see why certain topics are trending, and he plans to thin out the spam bots to give more room for actual people to tweet. These changes will also allow more freedom for users to debate/argue with each other without the fear of being suspended or banned for bullshit reasons.
This has most of the Twitter Puritans stating that they will be deactivating their accounts and moving to Facebook and Instagram, which in all honesty is the equivalent to when democrats were saying they’re moving to Canada if Trump became president. Speaking of Trump, a lot of users are speculating if Elon will be lifting Trump’s Twitter ban after the transaction is complete. I still find it a little weird that Trump is banned from Twitter while Vladimir Putin and the Taliban still have their accounts, but it will definitely be interesting to see people’s reactions if Trump is allowed back on Twitter.
And to the people who claim to be deactivating their accounts when Musk takes control of Twitter, I call bullshit. You people want to stick around to see what happens next just as much as I do, and it’s not like Elon Musk is telling you all to piss off. He even tweeted saying:
Do I hate the ideals that the Puritans are forcing upon people, yes! Do I wish they would fuck off and leave us alone, yes, but I won’t try to cancel them(that’s their thing). True free speech is meant for everyone, even the people who are total morons who hijacked “Woke Culture” to satisfy their god complex. People are quoting this moment as the “end times” for social media, but they’re being a little too dramatic. Social media has been in the crapper long before this happened, but now everyone is on a level playing field. No poltical, racial, or gender/sex privilage is going to protect people on Twitter anymore, and I’ll be chilling with the other common sense folk to watch everyone tear each other part.
What do you all think will happen when Elon takes charge and turns Twitter into a private company? We will be seeing drastic changes to the app, or will Twitter be more or less the same? Also if you’re interested to learn more about this whole ordeal, check out the article links below.
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Elon Musk and Twitter Reach Deal for Sale (NY Times): https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/25/business/elon-musk-twitter
Twitter accepts Musk’s offer to buy the company for $44 billion (MSNBC): https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/elon-musk-twitter-deal-rcna25869
Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s $44B acquisition offer (Tech Crunch): https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/25/twitter-accepts-elon-musks-43b-acquisition-offer/
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