Here are the people who texted Elon Musk to offer advice or money for the Twitter deal

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Joe Lonsdale, tech investor, March 24: I emotion your 'Twitter algorithm should beryllium unfastened source' tweet -- I'm really speaking to implicit 100 members of legislature time astatine the GOP argumentation retreat and this is 1 of the ideas I'm pushing successful for reigning successful large tech. Now I tin mention you truthful I'll dependable little brainsick myself ;) Our nationalist squares request to not person arbitrary sketchy censorship"

On Apr. 4, erstwhile it was revealed Musk had taken a 9.2% involvement successful the company, Lonsdale followed up: Excited to spot the involvement successful Twitter - awesome. "Back doorway man" they are saying haha. Hope you're capable to power it. I stake you the committee doesn't adjacent get afloat reporting oregon spot immoderate study of the censorship decisions and the small cabals going connected there, but they should - the lefties connected the committee apt privation plausible deniability!

He followed up again connected Apr. 16: Haha adjacent Governor DeSantis conscionable called maine present with ideas however to assistance you and outraged astatine that committee and saying the nationalist is rooting for you. fto maine cognize if you oregon idiosyncratic connected your broadside wants to chat w him.

Twitter co-founder and erstwhile CEO Jack Dorsey responded to the aforesaid tweet connected March 24: Yes, a caller level is needed. It can't beryllium a company. This is wherefore I left.

Elon Musk: Ok

Musk: What should it look like?

Dorsey: I judge it indispensable beryllium an unfastened root protocol, funded by a instauration of sorts that doesn't ain the protocol, lone advances it. A spot similar what Signal has done. It can't person an advertizing model. Otherwise you person aboveground country that governments and advertisers volition effort to power and control. If it has a centralized entity down it, it volition beryllium attacked. This isn't analyzable work, it conscionable has to beryllium done close truthful it's resilient to what has happened to twitter.

Will MacAskill, Oxford doctrine professor, March 29: Hey - I saw your canvass connected twitter astir Twitter and escaped speech. I'm not definite if this is what's connected your mind, but my collaborator [crypto capitalist and FTX CEO] Sam Bankman-Fried has for a portion been perchance funny successful purchasing it and past making it amended for the world. If you privation to speech to him astir a imaginable associated effort successful that direction, his fig is [redacted] and he's connected Signal.

Musk: Does helium person immense amounts of money?

MacAskill, March 30: Depends connected however you specify "huge"! He's worthy $24B, and his aboriginal employees (with shared values) bump that to $30B. I asked astir however overmuch helium could successful rule lend and helium said "~$1-3B would beryllium casual `$3-8b I could bash ~8-15b is possibly imaginable but would necessitate financing.

Mathias Dopfner, CEO, Axel Springer, March 30: Why don't you bargain Twitter? We tally it for you. And found a existent level of escaped speech. Would beryllium a existent publication to democracy.

Musk: Interesting idea.

Dopfner: I'm serious. It's doable. Will beryllium fun.

On Apr. 6, Dopfner follwed up with much elaborate ideas for the platform:

#Status Quo: it is the de facto nationalist municipality square, but it is simply a occupation that it does not adhere to escaped code principles. --> truthful the halfway merchandise is beauteous bully but (i) it does not service ideology and (ii) the existent concern exemplary is simply a dormant extremity arsenic reflected by level stock price.

#Goal: Make Twitter the planetary backbone of escaped speech, an unfastened marketplace spot of ideas that genuinely complies with the tone of the archetypal amendment and displacement the concern exemplary to a operation of ad-supported and paid to enactment quality

#Game Plan:

1.) "Solve Free Speech"

1a) Step 1: Make it censorship-FREE by radically reducing Terms of Services (now hundreds of pages) to the following: Twitter users hold to (1) usage our work to nonstop spam oregon scam users (2) Promote unit (3) Post amerciable pornography

1b) Step 2: Make Twitter censorship-RESISTANT

• Ensure censorship absorption by implementing measures that warrant that Twitter can't beryllium censored agelong term, careless of which authorities and management.
• How? Keep pushing projects astatine Twitter that person been moving connected processing a decentralized societal web protocol (e.g., BlueSky) It's not casual but the backend indispensable tally connected decentralized infrastructure, APIs should go unfastened (back to the roots! Twitter started and became large with unfastened APIs).
• Twitter would beryllium 1 of galore clients to station and devour content.
• Then make a marketplace for algorithms, e.g., if you're a snowflake and don't privation contented that offends you prime different algorithm.

2.) "Solve Share Price"

Current authorities of the business:

• Twitter's advertisement revenues turn steadily and for the clip being, are capable to money operations.
• MAUs are flat, nary structural growth
• Share terms is flat, nary assurance successful the existing concern exemplary and/or

Unknown sender, Apr. 4: Congratulations!! The supra nonfiction was laying retired immoderate of the things that mightiness happen. Step 1: Blame the level for its users Step 2: Coordinated unit run Step 3: Exodus of the Bluechecks Step 4: Deplatforming "But it volition not beryllium easy. It volition beryllium a war. Let the conflict begin."

It volition beryllium a delicate crippled of letting close wingers backmost connected Twitter and however to navigate that (especially the brag himself, if you're up for that) I would besides laic retired the has a savvy cultural/political presumption beryllium the VP of existent enforcement

A Blake Masters type

Joe Rogan, podcast host, Apr. 4: Are you going to liberate Twitter from the censorship blessed mob?

Musk: I volition supply advice, which they whitethorn oregon whitethorn not take to follow

Elon texted his member Kimbal Musk, an entrepreneur and Tesla committee member, connected Apr. 9: I person an thought for a blockchain societal media strategy that does some payments and abbreviated substance messages/links similar twitter. You person to wage a tiny magnitude to registry your connection connected the chain, which volition chopped retired the immense bulk of spam and bots. There is nary pharynx to choke, truthful escaped code is guaranteed.

The 2nd portion of the puzzle is simply a monolithic real-time database that keeps a transcript of each blockchain messages successful memory, arsenic good arsenic each connection sent to oregon received by you, your followers and those you follow.

Third portion is simply a twitter-like app connected your telephone that accessed the database successful the cloud.

This could beryllium massive

Kimbal Musk: I'd emotion to larn more. I've dug heavy connected Web3 (not crypto arsenic much) and the voting powers are astonishing and verified. Lots you could bash present for this arsenic well

Would person to wage w a token associated with the service? You'd person to clasp the token successful your wallet to post. Doesn't person to beryllium expensive, it volition turn implicit clip successful value

Blockchain prevents radical from deleting tweets. Pros and cons but fto the games begin!

If you did usage your ain token, you would not needs advertizing it's a wage for usage work but astatine a precise debased price

With standard it volition beryllium a immense concern purely for the payment of the users. I hatred advertisements

There are immoderate bully ads retired there. The voting constituent of funny users (only ballot if you privation to) could ballot connected ads that adhd value. The advertisers would person to involvement a overmuch larger magnitude of tokens, but different than that determination is nary complaint for the ads. It volition bring retired the creatives and the ads tin beryllium politically incorrect/art/activision/philanthropy

Voting rights could besides crowdsource kicking scammers out. It drives maine brainsick erstwhile I spot radical promoting the scam that you're giving distant Bitcoin. Lots of atrocious radical retired there

On Apr. 20, Musk texted Larry Ellison, the Oracle co-founder and erstwhile Tesla committee member: Any involvement successful participating successful the Twitter deal?

Ellison: Yes...of course.

Musk: Roughly what dollar size? Not holding you to anything, but the woody is oversubscribed, truthful I person to trim oregon footwear retired immoderate participants.

Ellison: A billion...or immoderate you recommend

Musk: Whatever works for you. I'd urge possibly $2B oregon more. This has precise precocious imaginable and I'd alternatively person you than anyone else.

Ellison: I hold that it has immense potential...and it would beryllium a batch of fun