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73 million is so much money I wouldn’t know what to do with it in my entire lifetime.
Its ~0.3% of the ~20 billion twitter has lost.
Rich people live in a different universe.
They’re flawed people.
I would stop at £1M. I’m not going to earn more than that before I die. But free time is far more valuable.
Everybody has different goals, but honestly does anybody even need to pass £10M. Broken hoarders is what they are.
73 million for a few years of a defederated Mastodon fork. Yeah, totally not fraud.
Would make a great Russian money laundering front.
It’s essentially a defederated Mastodon instance. Quite impressive that it can it lose 75 million.
That’s the one thing he’s good at, losing other peoples money.
it might very well be a way to steal these 75m from someone… probably from some morons contributing to his fight to make america great again or something. he is a fraudster after all and it would make total sense.
Can someone explain how this website lost millions? Given that this size was not that big, I fail to see how it could cost this much in admin and Server cost. Even some better known commercial shops will hardly hit 5digits in monthly server costs, plus salaries for 1-3 admins and support staff, and maybe advertising costs.
37million sounds like something they pulled out of thin air, maybe for some bookkeeping fraud or tax write off…
The classic Trump way, receive investment money and then pay yourself that investment money and more. Take out loans in the company’s name and eventually asset strip it to pay yourself again.
You are forgetting how much Trump has to pay Tim Apple. SAD!
Very unfair, but he is looking at it strongly
Wtf did that money even get spent on? They just used mastodon code, so they needed like one or two coders. Traffic was shit so it can’t be that much for hosting.
$23M of the loss is from the first half of this year. There was a $10M regulatory settlement and another $11M spent on “legal investigations”, which covers the bulk of that. I don’t have the time nor the inclination to really dig into it, but you can look at the filing here: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001849635/000119312523276045/d408563ds4a.htm
They lost $50M last year. I haven’t looked at that filing so I don’t have a clue what they spent that on besides $5M on “legal investigations” in the first half.
This company is a total scam. It’s basically a slush fund for Trump. What would probably be more of a bombshell than the spending is where the money is coming from. It’s all but guaranteed that it’s primarily foreign money. Probably also some rich MAGA wackadoos buying influence.
I doubt their goal was to make money.
It’s yet another hole in his wallet… assuming it’s even him paying for it. I’ll say one thing, these troglodytes are good at just not paying for things they owe for. Whether it be fines for putting up an illegal sign, or lawyers and other service-people.
assuming it’s even him paying for it.
I seriously doubt he has spent dollar one on this.
Not from that anyway, he’s parted plenty of his dipshit cult followers from theirs with it though.
You think they even spent that much on its development?
It’s a fork of existing software so I seriously doubt it
Sounds like he’s ginned up some more tax fraud to me.
eh, the next filing will show that it made $200 billion. The one after that will insist that it never existed in the first place.
*has spent 73 million sewing discord
Sowing*.
It’s spreading it like seeds, not stiching it like a seam.
Why not both? Discord all around!!
LOL
This news makes me wanna create an account and set automation to reload over and over just to cost a bit more electricity. But I’ve got better things to do.
Was it meant to make money? I mean, I think it’s just basically like old fashioned campaigning materials and propaganda, it’s just taking on the new interactive dimensions of social media and the perpetual campaigning of modern politics that Trump particularly is known for. Really it’s “profit” would be measured in outcomes rather than dollars, just as ad campaigns track numbers.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The numbers were revealed in a new financial disclosure from TMTG’s SPAC merger partner Digital World Acquisition Corp.
The filing indicates that, if TMTG is unable to complete the merger with DWAC, and receive the pot of money on the line, it may not survive.
The amended S-4 filing also broke out a number of updates and risk factors related to the company, including the fact that the long-planned streaming video service appears to be off the table for now.
The filing makes no mention of the service (which was teased with conservative comedy specials and “Trump-specific programming”) except in relation to layoffs.
“This action followed a review of all departments, most significantly impacted TMTG’s streaming video on demand (SVOD) and infrastructure teams.”
In May of 2022, Trump agreed to make Truth Social his primary social platform, agreeing not to post on other platforms until 6 hours after he sends a “Truth.” However, since initially signing the deal with TMTG, Elon Musk acquired Twitter and reinstated Trump’s account (he also rebranded it as “X.”)
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