Twitter just hired a big-name law firm to sue Elon Musk for dropping out of $44 billion takeover bid, report says

I get that, I do. And am not ignoring your post.

Musk of course knew about Twitter bots, evidently there is a certain number that is ok. What he apparently did not know was how MANY bots and bot bosses Twitter now has. And evidently Twitter was dishonest with Musk from the start about how many bots they now have, since halfway thru the contract dealings, Musk was like 'hey wait??? just HOW MANY bots DO you have??????' He is NOT going to buy Twitter out if it is crawling with bots! He said he warned them early on. So Musk investigated, and decided oh hell to the no! Very likely much higher amount of bots than feared.

I'm no legal-beagle. Just seems to me, that Twitter breached their own contract with Musk as presented by giving a lower number of bots in Twitter to Musk, than there actually are. If the matter of 'the number of bots' wasn't IN the contract, why did Musk complain so early on in the dealings and investigate the number of bots so rapidly? If all that's true, then IMO, Twitter breached contract first, by misleading Musk as to the number of bots. Which then, would allow Musk to cancel out the contract without penalty, would it not?

yeah but you can't use twitter to hype your stocks, it is called stock fraud and something the SEC has been all over musk about using twitter to do... that's not advertising, that's stock fraud



you know what there also is... a buyer has to do their own research on the products they are gonna buy... called doing your due dilligence

if a used car sells you a lemon and you didn't do your research on the car, you can't buy it then go hey you lied! buyer beware, consumer 101

musk is being slammed with a billion dollar breach of contract fee


and how do you all ignore this aspect of telsa and musk using twitter bots?



"Twitter bots helped build the cult of Elon Musk and Tesla. But who’s creating them?"

Over the 10-year study period, of about 1.4 million tweets from the top 400 accounts posting to the “cashtag” $TSLA, 10% were produced by bots. Of 157,000 tweets posted to the hashtag #TSLA, 23% were from bots, the research showed.

Kirsch and Chowdhury tracked 186 Tesla-related bot accounts and found that after each was launched, the company’s stock appreciated more than 2%. (They looked at the average stock return for the week previous to the bot’s creation and for the week following.) While Tesla’s market value has increased over the years, the price has seen dramatic ups and downs. The periods around bot creation showed sharp increases, but outside those windows, trading was far more volatile, Chowdhury said.



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You're a dolt, 541. A total dolt.

Betcha a pat on the head that Musk wins.

I can't stand the guy, but he's going to win.

What Musk does with bots is a completely separate, totally irrelevant issue. Perhaps a different lawsuit for a different day, but it doesn't apply at all in regard to this specific contract.

You're a dolt, 541. A total dolt.

Betcha a pat on the head that Musk wins.

I can't stand the guy, but he's going to win.

What Musk does with bots is a completely separate, totally irrelevant issue. Perhaps a different lawsuit for a different day, but it doesn't apply at all in regard to this specific contract.

no it will cost him 1 billion to get out of the deal

and maybe 100 mil in lawyers fees

so not $0

Nope, Twiddler lied.

They propped up their company based upon a lie. The value was based upon a lie.

Twiddler is screwed!

nonetheless there's a billion dollar break the deal fee in the contract sooooooooo

not a lot for elon to pay but it's not nuthin either

i bet you musk loses and has to pay the billion dollar break up fee plus attorney's fees

so musk using bots on twitter is totally irrelevant to him not wanting to buy twitter cause twitter has bots on it... totally not relevant right

that the guy who has benefitted from twitter bots is now mad twitter uses bots and wants to back out of the deal cause twitter has the thing he has used to become one of the wealthiest men ever

tooootally irrelevant huh

however would a man who used twitter bots for 10 years to hype his stocks know that twitter uses bots??!?!?!

The only firsthand knowledge that Musk would have of bots on Twitter would be his own. Going into the contract if he knew firsthand and factually that he had 10,000 Twitter bots of his own and chose to buy the company, he's purchasing said company based on what he knows.

If Twitter misrepresented a large number of Twitter bots, that's an entirely different story if Musk had no clue and if Twitter was hiding that fact.

If Twitter misrepresented those numbers to anyone in order to generate an income stream or to profit off of the sale, that's on Twitter.

I've worked in the legal field for over 20 years.

What do you do, 541?

Nope, Twiddler lied.

They propped up their company based upon a lie. The value was based upon a lie.

Twiddler is screwed!