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By selling it to a chum who paid an overpriced tag of $44B through leverage.


Honestly I think this point is understated. Twitter (executives at least - but that's how capitalism works in America right now) basically won by offloading a dying platform onto a sucker with more money then sense. If they'd spread the joy around so that everyone who worked there got a golden parachute to glide away on before Musk walked in with a kitchen sink I think I'd be singing praises of them as folk heroes - as it is they're at least assholes that managed to pull one over on a larger asshole.

Edit: Blargh - switching word order.


> onto a sucker with more sense than money.

I think you have that phrase backward.




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