Trump Says He Won't Return to Twitter

[applegrove]

Trump Says He Won’t Return to Twitter

April 25, 2022 at 3:40 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/04/25/trump-wont-return-to-twitter/

"SNIP......

Former President Donald Trump told Fox News that he will not return to Twitter, even as Elon Musk purchases the social media company and reinstates his account, instead using his own Truth Social as the sole platform for his voice.

Said Trump: “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth. I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth.”

Trump said he will start using his own social network within the next week.

......SNIP"

[sakabatou]

1. Which means he'll at least try.

[lame54]

2. Meaning he'll be back on Twitter

[Cha]

11. Exactly.. tffg Lies his fuckung head OFF.

& I suppose that means we have to endure his fucking tweets around here.. It's been so nice without them after 4 freaking years.

💙💛

[LakeArenal]

3. Hahaha. He so hilarious.

[NanceGreggs]

4. So he's going to start using ..

... "Tro-Truth Sential"?

[applegrove]

5. Slow-walking his return to Twitter so Twitter doesn't suffer from the "My Space"

effect that happened when Rupert Murdoch bought My Space and everyone left?

[Celerity]

32. Incorrect, Myspace continued to explode after Murdoch bought it, becoming by far the largest

social media network, but then Facebook started to eat into it, and destroyed it.

Remember, Facebook did not open up to all people 13 years old and up until the 26th of September 2006. Before that you needed a valid school email, or corporate email, which limited the hell out of who could join.



Myspace sold for $35m in spectacular fall from $12bn heyday

Six years ago News Corp bought it for $580m – then it was crushed by Facebook, leaving it at a fraction of its peak value

Thu 30 Jun 2011

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jun/30/myspace-sold-35-million-news

Myspace, once the world's hottest internet firm, has been sold to an online ad company for around $35m, a fraction of the $100m its parent company was seeking for the ailing social network and billions less than its value six years ago.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation bought Myspace in 2005 for $580m. In 2006 Google signed a $900m deal to sell ads on Myspace; by 2007 it had 300m registered users and was being valued at $12bn. But the social network was subsequently crushed by Facebook, which launched a year after Myspace.

News Corp put Myspace up for sale this year, engaging investment bank Allen & Co to find a buyer. News had been looking for $100m but settled for $35m offer from advertising targeting firm Specific Media. The sale is believed to be mainly in stock and News Corp will retain a small holding. Myspace is expected to shed more than half of its 500 remaining members of staff as part of the deal. The layoffs follow a 30% staff reduction in April 2010 and a further cut of 47% in January 2011. Two years ago Myspace employed more than 1,400 people.

Facebook passed Myspace in terms of numbers of users two years ago (2009). As people dropped Myspace, so did advertisers. Market research firm eMarketer estimates that the site will earn about $183m in worldwide ad revenues this year, down from $605m at its peak.

The sale comes as a new generation of internet firms are attracting sky-high valuations. Zynga, the online games developer behind hits including CityVille and FarmVille, is planning an initial public offering (IPO) that could value it at $20bn. LinkedIn, the business-focused social network, has already gone public and is valued at $8.6bn. Next year Facebook is expected to go public – analysts have estimated it could be worth $80bn or more.


Facebook Finally Catches Up To MySpace In The U.S.

June 15, 2009

https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/facebook-finally-catches-up-to-myspace-in-the-us/



News Corp. to Acquire Owner of MySpace.com

July 18, 2005

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/business/news-corp-to-acquire-owner-of-myspacecom.html

[applegrove]

33. The right does ot want the meme out there that a Harvard Geek who was

21 was more palatable than Robert Fox Murdoch. Goodwill is an asset Murdoch is missing.

[Celerity]

35. This has nothing to do with memes, it is simple facts and timelines. I do not do revisionist,

ahistorical positings, sorry.

Myspace was left in the dirt as it was a far less sophisticated, less user-friendly platform that lacked innovation and vision (whether good or bad in intent, that is a value judgement outside the scope of this discussion).

[applegrove]

37. Well I stopped myself from joining MySpace because of Murdoch. I'm

sure many, many liberals did the same.

[Celerity]

39. they exploded to over 300 million registered users post-Murdoch buy, they were not passed up by

FB until 4 years later (all of which I already documented).

At the start of 2006, (in late 2005 the url went to facebook.com, before that is the thefacebook.com), FB had 6 million users. At the end 2008, FB was still at 'only' 145 million users, BUT that was also the year, that Myspace stated to be really crushed by FB. You are talking 3 years AFTER Murdoch bought Myspace in mid 2005. Myspace did not cave in then at all, they actually exploded until they ran into the FB buzz saw 3 years later or so.






You are applying ex post facto logic (and also universalising a personal decision) unto things, neither of which are borne out as valid.

Joining FB was not even an option for most people (if they were non students) for the first 15 months or so of the then Murdoch-owned Myspace.

[Hugin]

6. No the real Dennis Dennison or some other...

Pseudonym will.

Maybe Pickles the nine year old boy.

So many to choose from out there.

[PJMcK]

25. Whatever happened to John Barron? (n/t)

[C_U_L8R]

7. At least until he cashes in his plunging Truth shares.

That sleazy SPAC still seems in limbo.

[PlanetBev]

8. Oh, horseshit

Who’s buying that?

[tinrobot]

9. "I didn't want to come back, but Elon begged me."

The script writes itself.

[Hugin]

15. +1

Took the words right out of my brain waves.

[SoonerPride]

18. You read my mind

100%

[Bok_Tukalo]

10. Rule #1 for understanding Trump:

Trump lies.

[rockfordfile]

12. This is about un-American fascist Musk.

[In It to Win It]

13. BULLSHIT!

[Bettie]

14. Good

but the second he's given the green light, he'll be there.

[helpisontheway]

16. Liar..nt

[Carlitos Brigante]

17. (In that stupid ass voice.) "Hey there, did you miss me?...". In 5, 4, 3, 2........ nt

[sanatanadharma]

19. Well, if true, great news, perhaps there is God

Maybe we will have front row seats to Elon Musk's karmic comeuppance and thousands of twits will tweet "screw-u" and "me-too" comments about the collapse of a once great empire with a surfeit of brevity if not elucidation.

Taking over ownership and claim to others' work for the aggrandizement of ego has been Musk's MO.
Ego is like the owner of a driver-less car, seating in the driver's seat and believing they are in control.
Ego is the "Not-me" kid in the family-circle who never accepts adult responsibilities.

If I buy the Emperor's new clothes line each year, I am perpetuating the illusions; I am not karmically free of the damage done by the Emperor's delusions.

[Blue Owl]

20. Who's taking bets?

[FakeNoose]

21. Oh sure he will ... as soon as Musk BEGS him to come back

What he really wants is for Musk to PAY HIM to come back. He'd be there in a heartbeat.

[tirebiter]

22. He doesn't have to be on Twitter to use it.

The Russian bots will fill that role.

[PortTack]

23. Laughable..of course he will

[Bev54]

24. Sure! Just like if Biden wins, I will leave the country!

[dalton99a]

26. Which means he will

"By popular demand"

[Samrob]

27. He hates people with real money. He think this is a way to get back at Musk. ??

[rockfordfile]

30. What the f are you talking Musk and trump are one in the same pos

[allegorical oracle]

28. Lie #33,498. nt

[0rganism]

29. so back by June then

bummer

[Takket]

31. "Trump said he will start using his own social network within the next week. "

so right around when he releases his health care plan?

[BannonsLiver]

34. Righhhhhht

[ForgedCrank]

36. Since when

has this ass ever told the truth about something?
Besides, there is no way he will be able to resist. I'd almost bet money on it.

[Autumn]

38. Trump lies. I bet he's begging Musk to let him back on.

[keithbvadu2]

40. As if Trump's word has any credibility.

As if Trump's word has any credibility.

[frogmarch]

41. Maybe trump

doesn't want to be seen as second fiddle to someone who is richer than he wants everyone to think he himself is.