Why did Elon Musk buy twitter instead of just starting his own social media business?

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (15 children)

You are right, it would be trivial to create another site, but not so trivial to make it the most used platform of that type. See Trump's Truth Social. He wasn't buying an app so much as he was buying a user base and an audience to influence. He wants a say over speech on what he views as the modern public square, so he bought the public square

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    [–]Musky 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Elon Musk literally looked at the world and decided the best thing he could do with 44 billion dollars was to make sure Nazi voices were being heard.

    That's a sophomoric argument. It's for free speech, and this is Saidit ffs, all of us have been kicked off mainstream platforms, well, except for your pansy line toeing card carrying shitlib, but that's in vogue with big tech rn.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

    there is the potential to make a lot of money in authoritarian misinformation politics

    So nothing has changed then, since misinformation politics was rife on the platform before Musk bought it.

    [–]Musky 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

    Socks is Mr. Misinformation, he just wants the right kind of misinformation.

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      [–]Musky 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

      You had a meltdown over the Hunter Biden laptop being real and verified 😂

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        [–]Musky 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

        You remember, HKP was schooling you, and you were getting all mad, and you were like "you're a big meenie, stop talking to me!" 😂

        And before that in chat....

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          [–]Musky 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

          I bet you had them crazy eyes while typing the whole time.

          [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

          ^ socks the nigger

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            [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

            Why put more effort than you ever do?

            [–]troubleshooter 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

            The reality is that twitter doesn't get nearly as much traffic as you think it does.

            There is a reason he bought twitter.