Showerthought after reading about Trump and Tiktok. Bet you Elon advises Trump to force the spinoff so that he can buy it.

  • KiwiFlavor
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    281 month ago

    If it did happen, could Elon afford it? Surely TikTok is much more valuable than Twitter, right? Musk could barely scrounge enough backing and had to put up his Tesla shares as collateral to get enough cash for the Twitter purchase.

    • @Death_Equity
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      221 month ago

      The question isn’t about affording it, the questions is why China would give up such a valuable Intel gathering and propaganda tool? They wouldn’t sell it for all the tea in China.

      • KiwiFlavor
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        191 month ago

        They’d give it up because the U.S. Government would force them to. That’s what OP is talking about

        • bizarroland
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          201 month ago

          They’ve already said they would shut down operations in America rather than sell.

          • @[email protected]
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            101 month ago

            And hopefully they’ll do that. The shit you can find on Twitter is alot more sick than TikTok, and you can be sure Elon would make it the same shitshow.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          Aren’t they “silently” migrating to a different but identical app called lemonade or something like that?

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      he and tesla have substantial crypto holdings; pump that shit some more and he’ll be able to buy it with funny money.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      11 month ago

      TikTok in 2024 being more valueable than Twitter in 2022??? Are you high?

      • KiwiFlavor
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        51 month ago

        Often, yes.

        Musk purchased Twitter in 2022 for 44 billion, and he was overpaying. For TikTok’s American component, its price could be $100 billion, according to BBC and CBS or even $180 billion according to the Financial Times. Although a forced sale would definitely decrease the value (and that value includes TikTok’s proprietary algorithms which aren’t a given) it is definitely worth more than Twitter, even 2022 Twitter