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Probably no one knows that rocket iron man and electric car overlord Musk on the other side of the ocean bought Twitter, right?
What is the concept of $44 billion? 288.3 billion yuan.
In 2020, Son Zhengyi's assets were 44.4 billion US dollars, making him the richest man in Japan.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period in Dongguan, the total planned investment of transportation projects is 288.3 billion yuan.
With Musk's move, his business empire has gathered "heaven, landing, and brain".
Heaven = rocket; landing = electric vehicle; into the brain = social network.
This is why foreign netizens joked that Musk does not spend advertising fees every year, and directly bought "advertising space" this year.
But some netizens are worried that The "big advertising slot" of Twitter will not be manipulated by the mainland?
There are several reasons for this:
1. Tesla's second largest market is in the mainland (the largest market is in the United States).
2. The main supplier of Tesla electric vehicles is the battery manufacturer in the mainland.
3. In 2009, the mainland blocked Twitter, and the government's content was almost impossible to regulate.
4. (Musk's acquisition of Twitter) could bring about change.
Intuitively, it can be seen that this Fu Caide Peking Mike is most likely a mainland netizen.
Is this for the sake of "worrying about the world"?
But that concern unexpectedly got the flop from Amazon boss Bezos.
Bezos' reply when forwarded was:
That's a very interesting question.
Did China gain some influence in city squares?
The city square here is an analogy. Because Twitter is an open social platform, isn't it like a square in a bustling city where everyone can express their opinions?
Although Amazon's business in China is mainly to B (e-commerce provider) and AWS (cloud services), it is not as "dependent" on China as Tesla's business.
But Bezos still "found a complement" to two sentences:
My personal answer is that the question is unlikely to happen.
The greater likelihood is that The Tesla business in China will become complicated rather than China's "censorship" of Twitter.
Of course, we'll find out: Musk is very good at dealing with this complexity.
Can we, the masses, feel a vague irony in the words?
After all, these two-digit rich people have long been pinpointed to Mai Mang.
In 2019, Musk was retweeting a piece of news that "Amazon acquires self-driving company Zoox."
Bezos, the world's richest man, was called a "copycat."
In Chinese context, the meaning of "cat" is somewhat similar to "dog".
The Zoox, which Amazon acquired, was sued by Tesla in 2018.
The prosecution was due to the fact that four employees Zoox poached from Tesla stole a large amount of Tesla's trade secrets and technical documents.
The lawsuit ended with Zoox losing the indemnity and a settlement.
Bezos acquired Zoox a year later, which was naturally seen by Musk as "provocative" and "plagiarized".
The "things of the earth" are already in constant strife, and the "things of heaven" are also fierce.
(As early as 20 years ago, the two also made good friends)
Musk's SpaceX and Bezos's Blue Origin compete in space Internet plans and moon landing programs.
In the face of the aggressive Musk launch plan (Starlink plan), blue origin under the stable Bezos is far below SpaceX in terms of the number of launches and the launch progress.
At the same time, both of them have received NASA's large order for the moon landing, and they will "want to compete with the heavenly public test."
Although Bezos doesn't necessarily like Musk, Twitter's founders admire the little marquee.
After Musk's acquisition of Twitter was finalized, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sent 6 tweets in a row, expressing his expectations for Musk.
Dorsey called Twitter his biggest regret — "It's already owned by Wall Street and the advertising model." Taking it back from Wall Street is the right first step. ”
He stressed: "In principle, I don't think anyone should own or operate Twitter. It should be a public good at the protocol level, not a company. ”
Dorsey called Musk a "unique solution" to the Twitter problem and called Musk's mission "to expand the light of consciousness."
"Elon's goal is to create a platform that is 'trusted and inclusive to the maximum extent', and rightly so."
Finally, Dorsey reiterated: "I am pleased that Twitter will continue to serve the public conversation." All over the world, even fly to the stars! ”
How to say it? The intuitive feeling is that foreigners are really enthusiastic in praising people.
The more intuitive feeling is that Musk will not or will not use Twitter as an "advertising space" for his personal business map so early.
After all, in the eyes of Twitter's founders, this is a "widely inclusive platform that is not owned by anyone as a public dialogue service."
At the same time, Musk also tweeted personally: "I hope that the harshest criticism of me can also stay on Twitter, because this is the meaning of free speech." ”
Of course, after the change of ownership, is Twitter still the tweet that the founders are looking forward to? It's hard to say.
But in the matter of widespread tolerance, mainland netizens are obviously more concerned about whether the Trump account that Twitter blocked in 2021 will be "unbanned".
There is already a P chart on this side (yes, the following picture is simply fake, but the real situation is that Trump's account has not yet returned to normal state).
At the same time, Trump also said that even if the Twitter account is restored, he will not use the platform.
Alas, mainland netizens have missed another window to peek into the political arena of a beautiful country.
Although Twitter is also a household name among Chinese netizens, the reason why it will be acquired is precisely because in the past two years, both revenue and activity have fallen short of expectations.
Guess how many times Twitter's daily presence ranks in the world?
According to Statista, as of January 2022, in the monthly active (MAU) ranking of all social media in the world:
Number one, Facebook (2.91 billion)
Second, YouTube (2.562 billion)
Third, WhatApp (2 billion)
Fourth, Instagram (1.478 billion)
Fifth, WeChat (1.263 billion)
Twitter ranks 15th on the list, or just 436 million.
In the end, I still expect Musk to do something earth-shattering.
After all, his business empire has been changing the world.
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