As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.

  • hairinmybellybutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    193·
    1 year ago

    I wonder if previous twitter execs are feeling a bit bad to have sold him twitter to see it destroyed like that.

    I mean it certainly proves Elon is an idiot as he used fraud to manipulate the price and got played instead.

    But was it worth it to let him destroy Twitter just because he tried to defraud it?

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      321·
      1 year ago

      They got $44 billion, double what sane people thought the company was worth. It would be irresponsible not to take Elon for a ride.

      • utopianfiat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Also illegal, since Twitter was a public company- they can’t discriminate on bona fide offers or they risk being sued.

    • Tygr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I’d be bummed out but happy I have an unlimited supply of hundred dollar bills to wipe away the tears.

    • Uiopp@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I wonder how long twitter would able to run at a loss if elon didn’t take it over as a slapstick joke went wrong.

    • KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m sure the previous execs are crying into their wads of cash. So much sympathy for them.

      Lol. Like if they gave a shit they would have forced that buyout to go through.