X is the King of the Media World.

[Cryingdick]

Just now, Lacessit said:

 

Musk can afford to lose money on X, with what he has made on Tesla.

 

It's his toy to preach to the converted. As another poster has said, X lost 33% of its users.

 

How does it make him more powerful? It's the money he funneled to Trump that achieved more power.

 

You probably don't realize it, but America is heading down the same path as Russia. Rule by oligarchs. How's that going for the average Russian?

 

Musk hasn't lost money on X. It is in part because of X leading him to take power with Trump that Tesla shares have soared. You can basically say X was free at this point.

[Keep Right]

Never been on Twitter or Bluesky but regardless, Trump is smarter than most people especially the left.

[0james0]

3 minutes ago, Keep Right said:

Never been on Twitter or Bluesky but regardless, Trump is smarter than most people especially the left.

I think Trump is toying with the left and the media and having fun with it 

[Lacessit]

2 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

Musk hasn't lost money on X. It is in part because of X leading him to take power with Trump that Tesla shares have soared. You can basically say X was free at this point.

Interesting choice of words, take power with Trump.

 

You could say X was free, if you subscribe to some cockeyed ideas of basic double entry book-keeping. It's called a profit and loss account. Or are you claiming Musk is so prescient he knew Tesla shares would go up if Trump won?

 

 

[Cryingdick]

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

Interesting choice of words, take power with Trump.

 

You could say X was free, if you subscribe to some cockeyed ideas of basic double entry book-keeping. It's called a profit and loss account. Or are you claiming Musk is so prescient he knew Tesla shares would go up if Trump won?

 

 

 

I am saying he knows what he is doing and continues to win and is the second most powerful man in the world as well as the richest. X is a nice tool in the box for his empire. I don't think he loses sleep over a paltry $44 billion. The way you account is much simpler than how Musk does things. For Musk X has b even invaluable for a guy like you it would be worth almost nothing.

[Lacessit]

10 minutes ago, Keep Right said:

Never been on Twitter or Bluesky but regardless, Trump is smarter than most people especially the left.

Trump is smart at conning people. As a businessman, his string of bankruptcies don't inspire confidence. In terms of economics and science, he's illiterate.

 

 

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, Cryingdick said:

 

I am saying he knows what he is doing and continues to win and is the second most powerful man in the world as well as the richest. X is a nice tool in the box for his empire. I don't think he loses sleep over a paltry $44 billion. The way you account is much simpler than how Musk does things. For Musk X has b even invaluable for a guy like you it would be worth almost nothing.

Well, I am solvent, and will remain so unless I make it to 103. I like that kind of simple.

 

I also don't need bodyguards. I'll bet Musk has a platoon of them.

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

Calm down dear, calm down.

 

X is only the 13th most popular social media platform worldwide and the  user count has declined by 33 million since January 2024. 

 

 

https://www.demandsage.com/twitter-statistics/

 

 

You know the old saying: "Sh#! floats to the top".

 

And, from your horizontal histogram...

 

The saying is SURELY TRUE, in this case.....

 

With FaceBook having Floated to the top.....

How disgusting!

 

 

 

 

[theblether]

4 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

 

You know the old saying: "Sh#! floats to the top".

 

And, from your horizontal histogram...

 

The saying is SURELY TRUE, in this case.....

 

With FaceBook having Floated to the top.....

How disgusting!

 

 

 

 

 

I've used up.my quota for dealing with witless trolls today. 

 

But I'll be nice to you as you are clearly a lonely man. 

 

The next time you press send, will.it be a nice message? 

 

Or yet another reflection of your deep unhappiness with life? 

 

 

 

 

.

[GammaGlobulin]

11 minutes ago, theblether said:

 

He's made it already. Only true clowns don't know that. 

 

"You want to blackmail me with money? I dont care " said the richest man in history. 

 

"When will Elon make money from Twitter" says a witless broke troll posting from a municipal bin. 

 

Reality? The man owns the most effective media platform on planet earth. Ever, all time, historical. 

 

Get back in your bin. 

 

Glad to hear it.

You've made my day.

 

Go Leon!

He IS my fellow alum, ...

You know....

Right?

 

 

[Cryingdick]

46 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Well, I am solvent, and will remain so unless I make it to 103. I like that kind of simple.

 

I also don't need bodyguards. I'll bet Musk has a platoon of them.

 

it's a good thing we have people like Musk to do the heavy lifting in the world so the little guy can live simply.

[ericthai]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

My question is when will Elon be able to state that he has made money from his purchase....?

 

 

Musk has said a few times that he didn't buy (twitter/X) it to make money, he bought it to keep free speech alive.

When advertisers threatened to pull adds, Musk told them to go f@#$ themselves.

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

45 minutes ago, ericthai said:

Musk has said a few times that he didn't buy (twitter/X) it to make money, he bought it to keep free speech alive.

When advertisers threatened to pull adds, Musk told them to go f@#$ themselves.

 

 

 

Let's all keep in mind that when Elon invests in a business, then he almost ALWAYS makes money.

X is no exception.

The only question is when.

And, this was my question.

 

Free Speech is important, as my fellow-alum Chomsky always says.

He says that the USA is probably the only country that guarantees Free Speech, and he is correct in his statement.

 

If you really want to know what Noam says about Free Speech, and its importance, then you might be interested in these short VIDs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free Speech is Free Speech.

There is no compromise.

This is obvious.

 

Without free speech, there is no freedom.

There can be no change for the better.

Obviously.

 

 

[SunnyinBangrak]

52 minutes ago, ericthai said:

Musk has said a few times that he didn't buy (twitter/X) it to make money, he bought it to keep free speech alive.

When advertisers threatened to pull adds, Musk told them to go f@#$ themselves.

 

 

He was referring specifically to Disney's Bob Iger. Worth noting that Disney crawled back to X with its tail between its legs after attempting and failing to blackmail Musk. 

How humiliating after being told to go F themselves. 🤣

 

https://www.adweek.com/media/advertisers-returning-to-x/

[BigStar]

4 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

Certainly NOT X!

 

Your loss. X is a valuable source of free up-to-date news/info/opinions, esp alternative, posted by gurus in various fields. I follow several feeds daily. Some are written merely by people I find interesting.

 

It's better than ever since Musk took it over. He got rid of liberal censorship and stopped allowing the Biden admin to shape content favorably towards the Democratic parry. And he's been coming up w/ innovations, most recently, Grok.

[blaze master]

10 hours ago, Lacessit said:

lost 33% of its users.

 

Wrong.

[mokwit]

11 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Calm down dear, calm down.

 

X is only the 13th most popular social media platform worldwide and the  user count has declined by 33 million since January 2024. 

 

 

https://www.demandsage.com/twitter-statistics/

I hardly think all those are directly comparable - people don't go to instagram for news, they use whatsapp for chatting etc.

[mokwit]

10 hours ago, 0james0 said:

 

Where and what is your source of truth? The View, cnn, msnbs, abc or AN? All the above of course and you believe every lie that they spoon feed you. 

...and you are only told what they want you to know, shown what they want you to see. Lying by omission and distortion is rampant.

[KhunLA]

9 minutes ago, mokwit said:

...and you are only told what they want you to know, shown what they want you to see. Lying by omission and distortion is rampant.

Yea, that's why I stay clear of MSM 

[mokwit]

2 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Yea, that's why I stay clear of MSM 

We have people posting on here who don't know this (the link brigade).

[KhunLA]

A few of these, I never heard of.  Can't believe people fell for Telegram, as simply a govt site, to spy on people that thought it was private.  As are VPNs, to track ignorant people.

 

Get news from RTnews, seems to be the least bias, though do ignore RU news. 

 

Glad X is free-ish speech now, as was totally censored before.  Have but rare I ever look at it, unless linked elsewhere, and same with tik tok vids (entertainment).

 

YouTube shorts, entertainment.

 

 

 

[stevenl]

4 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

A few of these, I never heard of.  Can't believe people fell for Telegram, as simply a govt site, to spy on people that thought it was private.  As are VPNs, to track ignorant people.

 

Get news from RTnews, seems to be the least bias, though do ignore RU news. 

 

Glad X is free-ish speech now, as was totally censored before.  Have but rare I ever look at it, unless linked elsewhere, and same with tik tok vids (entertainment).

 

YouTube shorts, entertainment.

 

 

 

Right. RT has the least bias and msm are unreliable. You're living in an echo world.

[Captain Flack]

A number of flame posts, needing personal attacks and abuse in an attempt to make a comment have been removed.

[KhunLA]

13 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Right. RT has the least bias and msm are unreliable. You're living in an echo world.

MSM just flat out lies.  RT is usually spot on.

 

I find people that criticize RT, obviously never read RT.  I was always force feed MSM, at work or now on AN, and can't believe people actually believe most of it.  Most of my life, I rarely watched the news, and didn't even own a TV until living in TV.  If one in the house, I barely watched it.  

 

Only have one now as a monitor to laptop, and to watch torrents on.  Torrents only because I'm retired and too much time on my hands after sunset.  

 

People haven't a clue what their govt reps voted for, but yet re-elect them, even though unhappy with the way thing are.   But they can tell you everything about a celebrity or a TV program.

 

It's called 'programming' for a reason 

[Woke to Sounds of Horking]

Remember that Elton Musk's companies want to stitch a computer into your brain. See how that feels!

[Woke to Sounds of Horking]

5 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

RT is usually spot on.

RT is just the other side of the coin of nonsense buddy.

[KhunLA]

11 minutes ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

RT is just the other side of the coin of nonsense buddy.

I take it with a grain of salt, but surprised how accurate it is vs totally corrupt MSM.  Can't really say I even read a lot of RT, and only if a headline interests me.

 

I prefer to think for myself, not that I even care about USA, TH or world news & events.  Just stay tuned in to things that actually may affect my life, which is very little on the news.   Nothing I need to know from the crap they all push, and it's basically 'marketing' now.  

 

Every news-blip, op-ed is linked to product promotion related to what ever is being discussed.  If not pushing a product, pushing an agenda to divide people to control them.

 

Suggest y'all stopped watching, unplug for a month, if you can, then tune back in, with an open mind, you might see it completely different.

 

Ignore it all, live life, enjoy living life, and be HAPPY.

 

Some of y'all, really need to unplug and get a hobby, a partner, a life.  Not directed at anyone, unless of course applicable.  If that offends you ... nuff said 

[stevenl]

4 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I take it with a grain of salt, but surprised how accurate it is vs totally corrupt MSM.  Can't really say I even read a lot of RT, and only if a headline interests me.

 

I prefer to think for myself, not that I even care about USA, TH or world news & events.  Just stay tuned in to things that actually may affect my life, which is very little on the news.   Nothing I need to know from the crap they all push, and it's basically 'marketing' now.  

 

Every news-blip, op-ed is linked to product promotion related to what ever is being discussed.  If not pushing a product, pushing an agenda to divide people to control them.

 

Suggest y'all stopped watching, unplug for a month, if you can, then tune back in, with an open mind, you might see it completely different.

 

Ignore it all, live life, enjoy living life, and be HAPPY.

 

Some of y'all, really need to unplug and get a hobby, a partner, a life.  Not directed at anyone, unless of course applicable.  If that offends you ... nuff said 

Yes, you're living in an echo world.

[KhunLA]

18 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Yes, you're living in an echo world.

Not really, as I live in my own world.  Before retiring, didn't have time or should say, didn't bother with the world.  Too much into my interests, making money, sex, drugs & RR, to bother.

 

This is how tuned out I am.  When Cheney's army rolled into Iraq, the day or 3 after, I was at the doc's, and she asked my opinion of it.  She was amazed that I didn't have a clue that US force had invaded the day or 3 before.

 

Since I was off work for about a week, I had no knowledge of it.  Blew her mind 

 

If not at work, I was unplugged from the world.  Too much down time at work, and break room at work had a TV, needing to be there, thus the 'force fed' comment earlier.  And then, I was only at work, 2 days a week 😎

 

If not for AN, I wouldn't have a clue what is happening in the world outside of PKK.  Most times, I really don't want to know or care.

 

[blaze master]

18 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Yes, you're living in an echo world.

 

Got a link for that claim ?