If you're not a bot, reply 'hello world.' Elon Musk wants Twitter to say bye-bye to bots.
With a reported net worth of more than $300 billion, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he could “technically afford” to purchase Twitter outright and also had plans to change the user experience of the major social media platform.curator Chris Anderson that if his offer to buy Twitter were successful, he would consider changing the way the platform handles controversial content by not promoting certain tweets and adding the ability to edit tweets as well as show that edit history.
“A top priority I would have is eliminating the spam and scam bots and the bot armies that are on Twitter,” said Musk. “They make the product much worse. If I had a Dogecoin for every crypto scam I saw, we’d have 100 billion Dogecoin.”According to a Wednesday filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk offered to— excluding the roughly 9% that he already owns — for $54.20 per share, representing a 38% premium over the stock’s closing price as of April 1.
Reactions to the Tesla CEO’s potential ownership of the popular social media platform were mixed. Many lauded the move as a step in the right direction for free speech, while others pointed to Musk’s own seemingly immature behavior on Twitter and his immense wealth. “It takes some pretty impressive mental gymnastics to associate any type of ‘freedom’ with the richest man in the world initiating a hostile takeover and forcing one of the largest public social media platforms private,”
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