Fidelity has cut its estimate of X's value by 79% since Musk's purchase | TechCrunch
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Elon Musk's X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price, according to a new estimate from investor Fidelity.  The asset manager, Elon Musk's X is now valued at less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price, according to Fidelity.

“Fidelity is currently valuing X at about $9.4 billion”

I found this funny.

Honestly terrifying that they still think it is worth that much.

@hushable@lemmy.world
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they still own the twitter trademark, that might be their biggest asset

kingthrillgore
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Which has been crashed and burned to a fraction of its value.

@sqibkw@lemmy.world
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I wouldn’t be surprised if part of this remaining value is because the Japanese internet still heavily relies on it as a platform, even if the west has begun moving elsewhere.

@Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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Let’s everyone point and laugh. It humbles people like him, right?

I don’t think many can taste the sarcasm in your comment, but you’re spot on.

@Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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Appreciated. Yeah. That douche is the absolute worst, but everyone climbing over one another to call him out is just making him more and more relevant.

@dubious@lemmy.world
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I tend to ignore posts about him. I wouldn’t even be commenting here if I weren’t just trying to see if I’m banned from this instance, or just political memes.

@Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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I see ya loud and clear! So that’s good news!

dinckel
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May it sink even lower

@grue@lemmy.world
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If he succeeds in using it as a propaganda platform to force the US into a fascist dictatorship, he will have gotten his money’s worth.

@tabular@lemmy.world
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I just checked and it’s worth nothing to anyone important.

@vegeta@lemmy.world
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Still worth billions though.

@istoff@lemmy.world
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If they influence the election to their desired outcome, then the value won’t matter. The damage will have been done.

bruhSoulz
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Is elon a Trump fan?

@twack@lemmy.world
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Uhm… Yes. Like a lot.

@Shapillon@lemmy.world
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Yes, he gets a raging fascist boner every time someone fails to assassinate Trump because he thinks it’s the cue to go full Nazi but really he just keeps jumping the gun and making it far too obvious deeply part of Trump’s ongoing fascist takeover schemes and really not the guy we should have any significant government contracts with

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I see, thanks for the insight. I don’t have Twitter so I didn’t really know about this stuff 😂

Elon Musk’s greatest personal achievement has been his tireless work and incredible effort toward disproving the myth of Billionaire Exceptionalism.

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How to become a billionaire: Start with 54 billion

I doubt anybody would buy it for a tenth, tbh.

I’m confident you could unload the property for $4B easily enough. That’s somewhere in the neighborhood of $10-100/unique user amortized out over the life of the loan, which would be a steal via any other advertising medium.

Twitter still has real value. Hundreds of millions of people still use it, even in its deplorable state. And under new management, I’m confident people would flood back in.

@finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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You would have to prove that the hundreds of millions who use it are “people”.

Empty Internet Theory is a clever joke, but it doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.

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FaceBook deleted 6.5 BILLION BOTS IN 2021.

Neither Facebook nor Twitter claimed 6.5B unique users.

@finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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Well then FB lied about it at this link HERE

@LwL@lemmy.world
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They can delete 6.5 billion accounts without claiming they are active users.

@9point6@lemmy.world
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I remember thinking twitter was bad before he took over

It’s now a complete shadow of what it was even just a couple of years ago. Just a quarter of its value seems generous

@reksas@sopuli.xyz
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its worth comes from being able to influence world politics. Does he seem like someone who cares or needs money?

@Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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True, but that power is also diminished greatly as more and more regular users abandon the site. No eyes on the propaganda makes it worth a lot less.

He didn’t bilk Tesla shareholders into his huge pay package because he doesn’t care about money.

@vvvvv@lemmy.world
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Twitter currently has $1.5 billion/year deficit which is a lot, even for Musk, to bankroll.

@reksas@sopuli.xyz
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that brightens my day a little to hear

@erenkoylu@lemmy.ml
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Does he seem like someone who cares or needs money?

He got a massive load to buy Twitter, so yeah, he does.

The natural language dataset is worth a lot. That’s why they’re and Reddit made the sites harder to use/scrape.

@seaQueue@lemmy.world
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That’s a good start, now keep going

@erenkoylu@lemmy.ml
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%79 so far

Twitting little twat waffle tears down trust.

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