{"id":18108,"date":"2022-05-13T17:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T17:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/productcollective.com\/?p=18108"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:41:07","slug":"on-again-off-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/productcollective.com\/on-again-off-again\/","title":{"rendered":"On again, off again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Elon Musk just messing with us all?<\/p>\n<p>First,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/04\/04\/musk-twitter-shares-trolled-again\/\">he announced that he would be buying just over 9% of Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and, the very next day, confirmed he would be joining Twitter\u2019s Board of Directors. Then,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/04\/10\/elon-musk-is-not-joining-twitter-board-ceo-parag-agrawal-says\/\">he declined the Board seat<\/a>\u00a0(because of the pesky background check they wanted to run). Then,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/04\/14\/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-twitter-for-43-billion\/\">he announced his intention to buy Twitter outright<\/a>\u00a0for a cool $43 Billion. Originally, there was talk of the Twitter Board of Directors instituting a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/04\/15\/twitter-adopts-poison-pill-defense-to-block-elon-musk-takeover\/\">\u201cpoison pill<\/a>\u201d clause in order to not accept Musk\u2019s offer. But ultimately,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/04\/25\/twitter-accepts-elon-musks-43b-acquisition-offer\/\">Twitter\u00a0<em>did<\/em>\u00a0decide to accept the offer<\/a>\u00a0to be acquired and all was set for Elon Musk to take over the blue bird app.<\/p>\n<p>Until today.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Elon Musk tweeted out, \u201cTwitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam\/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users\u201d \u2013 linking out to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/twitter-estimates-spam-fake-accounts-represent-less-than-5-users-filing-2022-05-02\/\">Reuters article<\/a>\u00a0about spambot accounts on Twitter, sending its shares to tumble by double-digits since the close of day yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>So what in the world is going on? Will this acquisition actually happen? Or is this going to play out like an entire season of\u00a0<em>Billions\u00a0<\/em>with the world watching, with swerve after swerve?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to tell how it will end. I feel for the product people at Twitter, though. We can all joke about editable tweets \u2013 but how can anybody possibly be productive when there\u2019s so much uncertainty playing out? And it\u2019s not like this is the first time that they\u2019ve had to deal with leadership changes playing out publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Time will only tell. I guess we\u2019ll all have to tune in for next week\u2019s episode to find out what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Elon Musk just messing with us all? First,\u00a0he announced that he would be buying just over 9% of Twitter\u00a0and, the very next day, confirmed he would be joining Twitter\u2019s Board of Directors. Then,\u00a0he declined the Board seat\u00a0(because of the pesky background check they wanted to run). Then,\u00a0he announced his intention to buy Twitter outright\u00a0for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On again, off again<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Is Elon Musk just messing with us all?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/productcollective.com\/on-again-off-again\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On again, off again\" \/>\n<meta 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