Conspiracy theory

[ffutures]

 Not a twitter person but sort of enjoying the meltdown. Putting together a couple of ideas I've seen in other posts:

Musk is heavily into cryptocurrency
Musk has alienated most of Twitter's tech team, which would give him an excellent reason to put in his own henchmen
Assuming Twitter survives, a new app will be rolled out sooner or later
Anyone want to bet that it WON'T be botnetting everyone's phones to mine bitcoin?

I rest my case...

Comments

[history_monk]

Unlikely. The extra power drain would cause the phones to run their batteries down very fast, and a class-action US lawsuit would start very fast.

[dewline]

Assumes that Musk cares about such consequences until they're actually inflicted.

[ffutures]

Good point - probably a bit hard to hide it and accomplish much without running the phones down.

[ratcreature]

I think turning the app into malware won't be likely, but I wondered whether owning Twitter couldn't help to have an inside track to subtly profit from all these crypto pump and dump schemes rather than promoting some sh*tcoin on this own twitter and risk obvious accusations? Like ads for some token are pushed that he bought for near zero jyst before they go live, knowing those will at least briefly increase price, and he can sell then. I mean presumably that would also count as some sort of insider trading, but since he doesn't care about laws, it's at least less visible than using his own tweets.

[ffutures]

Now that one is fairly plausible...