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“How to Delete Twitter” searches up 1011% since Musk announcement

  • Online searches for “How to Delete Twitter” up 1011% in past 24 hours
  • “Delete Twitter” searches up 560%
  • “Twitter Alternatives” searches up 300%
  • “Mastodon” one of Twitters main competitors, has seen searches jump 455.5%
  • However, “How to Sign up to Twitter” searches are up 147.3%
  • “Twitter Sign Up” also up 50%, but is sharply increasing in past few hours

Data in full below, hope this is of use to you! Any questions feel free to get in touch. 

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“How to Delete Twitter” searches up 1011% since Elon Musk takeover announcement

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is now complete, but what does it mean for the social media giant? 

The 51 year old business magnate has promised to ring the changes, but it seems Twitters current user base isn’t happy. 

Searches for “How to Delete Twitter” have increased 1011% in the past 24 hours, while searches for “Delete Twitter” have also jumped 560%

Could this be an opportunity for some competitors to gain an advantage? The Data certainly suggests so, with searches for “Twitter Alternatives” up 300%. 

Searches for micro-blogging service “Mastodon”, which has a distinctly Twitter-like feel, have jumped 455.5% also

It’s not a complete exodus however, since Musk closed the deal searches for “How to Sign up to Twitter” have increased 147.3%. There has been a small spike in searches for “Twitter Sign Up” also, with a 50% boost, however data shows a sharp increase in searches in the past 2 hours alone, so watch this space.

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**Data gathered over the past 24 hours, up to 9am GMT**

For more information please contact JJ@Digitalfunnel.ie 

Release compiled by Digital Funnel on behalf of Wisetek

Elon Musk Going Ahead with Buying Twitter: Stock Spikes

Do you remember back in April when Elon Musk, the head of Tesla (TSLA) said that he was buying Twitter (TWTR) at $54.20 per share?

by Fred Fuld III

Do you remember back in April when Elon Musk, the head of Tesla (TSLA) said that he was buying Twitter (TWTR) at $54.20 per share?

However, Musk attempted to back out of the agreement, primarily giving a reason of too many fake Twitter accounts.

But Twitter sued Musk in court for performance, requesting that he go through with the deal.

According to sources, Musk has decided to move forward with the takeover of Twitter.

This happened just shortly before a deposition was taken of Musk by Twitter lawyers.

The news caused Twitter to spike in price today, closing at $52 per share, up $9.14 or 22.24%. In after-market trading, the stock dropped a little from its close, falling 70 cents.

This transaction will cost Elon Musk $44 billion.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

Elon Musk Owns Shares In A Beverly Hills Entertainment Co.

by Fred Fuld III

Elon Musk is involved in a lot of businesses, including Tesla (TSLA), the Boring Company, SpaceX, and Neuralink, and almost became the head of Twitter (TWTR).

Elon Musk

However, many investors don’t realize that Musk has been on the Board of Directors of a company called Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (EDR).

In addition, Elon Musk owns 7,583 shares of Endeavor Group Holdings, according to a recent SEC Form 4 filing.

Musk has been a director of the company since its IPO, but has resigned as of June 30.

So what is this Endeavor Group Holdings?

Endeavor, formerly named William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, is located on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.

It is an entertainment conglomerate. It owns such businesses as UFC, the talent management company IMG, Professional Bull Riders, Miss Universe, and nine Minor League Baseball Teams.

The company has a market cap of $6.2 billion, and a sky high price to earnings ratio of 730. However, it does have a reasonable price sales ratio of 1.10.

Revenues year-over-year have gone from $3.48 billion in 2020 to $5.08 billion in 2021.

The Endeavor Talent Agency launched in 1995. In 2009, WMA and the Endeavor Talent Agency merged to form William Morris Endeavor, or WME.

Endeavor executives Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell became co-CEOs.

On April 28, 2021, Endeavor Group went public on the New York Stock Exchange.

Disclosure: Author has a short option position in TSLA.

Elon Musk’s Letter to Twitter Canceling His Acquisition of Twitter

by Fred Fuld III

By now, you should have heard the news. Elon Musk, the head of Tesla (TSLA), has decided to cancel his acquisition of Twitter (TWTR).

Musk is claiming that Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of the agreement, and has also claimed that the company has more bot accounts than what Twitter claims it has.

Musk originally agreed to buy the company at $54.20 a share. Twitter stock is now down to 35.04 in after-market trading as of last Friday, July 8, 2022.

Do you want to see the actual letter dated July 8 that Elon Musk sent to Twitter’s chief legal officer through Musk’s attorney? Here is the link:

Elon Musk Letter from his Attorneys Canceling the Twitter Acquisition

 

First Twitter is Taken Over: What Stock is Next?

by Fred Fuld III

I’m sure all of you have heard the news that Elon Musk is buying Twitter (TWTR) for $44 billion at $54.20 per share. What some investors are wondering is if there are any other companies that may be bought out.

Twitter falls into the category of Internet Content & Information. Obviously, some of these stocks are extremely large and unlikely to be bought by anyone or any company. But anything is possible. Plus, with the stock market in general, some of these companies might be reaching a favorable buy range.

The following companies are all Internet Content & Information companies, all are profitable with all but one having price to earnings ratios less than 40, all have sales growth over the last five years in excess of 5%, and all have earnings per share growth this year of over 10%.

Company Symbol Market Cap P/E
Meta Platforms, Inc. FB 552.56B 13.56
Gaia, Inc. GAIA 111.99M 28.78
Alphabet Inc. GOOGL 1742.60B 21.93
Pinterest, Inc. PINS 14.23B 39.14
Shutterstock, Inc. SSTK 2.94B 31.57
Yelp Inc. YELP 2.57B 67.07

Keep an eye on these companies during the next few weeks.

 

Disclosure: Author didn’t own any of the above at the time the article was written.

Should You Buy Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)?

by Fred Fuld III

You may have read about all the hype over the last few months regarding non-fungible tokens, more commonly called NFTs, and occasionally referred to as nifties.

If you don’t know what an NFT is, I will try to explain it as simple as I can. An NFT is a digital asset, such as a jpg or png artwork, a gif, a cartoon, music, a video, digital sports cards, video game assets, and even naming rights to a giant sea bass. The NFT is recorded on a blockchain which secures the ownership of the asset and certifies that the asset is unique, or one of a very limited quantity.

Stock Ticker Man Spitting Out Money

Stock Ticker Man Spitting Out Money NFT

The NFTs are usually sold on platforms such as OpenSea, Rarible, SuperRare, and Foundation, with cryptocurrency, such as Ether, being the primary currency. Some sales have facilitators for buyers who just want to pay by credit card or check.

The prices of many of these NFTs has been skyrocketing. Last year, the NFT market was about $250 million. For the first quarter of this year, sales jumped to $2 billion. You may have heard that Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter (TWTR), sold an NFT of his first tweet for $2.9 million.

Michelle Phillips, vocalist with the Mamas & the Papas, songwriter, and actress has gotten in on the act. A couple months ago, I interviewed her about her NFT auction (I believe it was her only NFT auction interview) and all ten of her NFTs  sold out.

With regards to buying NFTs as an investment, I won’t comment on that because I never make investment recommendations. However, you should treat NFTs like art or collectables. If you like what you see and you plan to hold on to it without the expectation of reselling at a profit, then maybe you should buy it.

You might even want to create your own NFT. Click HERE for an example of a stock market themed NFT for sale on Rarible.

 

Top Stock Symbol Searches on Twitter

by Fred Fuld III

Twitter (TWTR) has become one of the leading social media services for posting stock trading and investing ideas. If you are wondering what stocks people are currently searching for, here is a list of the latest top searches.

Tesla TSLA
NeoGenomics NEO
BTC Health BTC
SysGroup SYS
APPC APPC
Alibaba BABA
Celgene CELG
DRGN DRGN
National Beverage FIZZ
MiMedx MDXG
Pan Orient POE
Real Biz Media RBIZ
WAN WAN

Less Than a Year Ago, I Said Twitter was a Screaming Buy – Was I Right?

by Fred Fuld III

It was only about ten months ago, on August 2, 2017, that I wrote the article, Why Twitter is a Screaming Buy. I discussed several reasons, including Twitter’s biggest asset (Donald Trump). Also, an extensive coverage of earnings and the lack thereof. I also came up with some suggestions about how Twitter could improve its revenues.

At the time that I wrote the article, the stock was trading for less than $16 a share. It closed at the end of the day at 16.07.  What’s it trading for now? Currently, the stock is up 3% so far today, trading at 40.94.

What’s the return if you had bought the stock back on August 2? A very respectable 155%! Not bad for a holding period of less than a year.

The bird is flying!!!

 

Disclosure: Author owns TWTR.

Why Twitter is a Screaming Buy

Twitter (TWTR) took a huge dump a few days ago on July 27 when it reported earnings, and by the end of the day, the stock dropped by around 14% from the previous day’s close. A couple weeks ago, it had been trading over $20 a share, and now it is less than $16 a share, at the time I am writing this.

The company reported negative earnings, as usual, so why is it a screaming buy? Let’s start off with the company’s biggest asset, President Donald Trump. Yes, Trump provides an advantage to Twitter that no other company has. He tweets almost every single day, and on many days, he tweets multiple times a day. No other president, or for that matter, no other head of state, has ever tweeted so much in the history of mankind. (You know what I mean.) Trump doesn’t use Facebook, he doesn’t use LinkedIn, he doesn’t use Snapchat, he doesn’t use Instagram, he doesn’t use any of the other social media platforms, he doesn’t even send out mass emails. He uses Twitter.

Trump is Twitter’s Biggest Asset

So, the President of the United States is providing free advertising for the company. Imagine the free advertising that Blue Apron would get if Trump ordered from them every day (and told everyone about it).

One of these days, someone is going to figure out how to monetize this unique feature. It may or may not be Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO. It may or may not be Anthony Noto, Twitter’s COO. Or it may be someone new that the company brings in. But someone is going to do it.

Earnings?

But what about earnings? Yes, Twitter hasn’t been generating a profit. But look at Facebook (FB). The company lost $56 million back in 2008, and finally turned it around in 2009 with net income of $229 million. Everyone complains about Amazon (AMZN) not making any money. It lost $278 million in 2014 then showed a profit of $618 million the following year. LinkedIn generated losses in 2010 and 2011, then went profitable in 2012.

Here’s the thing about earnings. When you have income, you have to pay taxes. Once that money is paid out to the IRS, it is dead money; it is money that doesn’t benefit the company. However, applying excess cash flow to tax deductible expenditures, such as more employees, buildings, equipment, machinery, research and development, marketing, and advertising, will benefit the company. These expenses help the company grow and keep taxes low. As long as revenues keep increasing, it pays off in the end, as it did for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Amazon. (Yeah, yeah, I know, Amazon has an outrageously high price-to-earnings ratio and forward P/E, but look at the growth rate of revenues and earnings. Income for the latest fiscal year spiked 292% over the previous year.)

6 Revenue Increasers

But what can Twitter specifically do to increase revenues and earnings? Here is a list of suggestions.

  1. Offer ads that appear by every tweet made by Trump. These ads could appear either above or below the tweet, or both.
  2. Offer ads that appear by every major celebrity tweet, especially those with over a million followers.
  3. When you check your lists, there should be an ad above or below the lists.
  4. In the left hand column, under Trends for You, an ad should be available to advertisers. It would not be intrusive to users who first log on, but would be a great location for advertisers when users scroll down.
  5. Aggressively go after major advertisers to pay for promoted tweets (Amazon book of the day, Wal-Mart deal of the day, Priceline travel deal of the day, etc.)
  6. Set up a Tweet Bank. There are tweets that I want to save that have interesting links, gifs, or pictures. However, when I look for them after a month or two, they are very hard to find, even if I check my Like list. It would be nice if there was a little Save icon next to the Direct Message icon, where I could save the tweet into my Tweet Bank. (This isn’t really a profit making suggestion, just a user enhancement making idea.)

By the way, this is not a stock recommendation (in spite of what the title of this article says). I never give investment advice. This is just a suggestion for your own research and entertainment.

One of these days, Twitter will turn around. The bird will fly. It’s just a matter of who, what, and when.

Disclosure: Author owns TWTR and AMZN.

The Twitter Annual Meeting

Me & Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO
Me & Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO

The Twitter Annual Meeting was held yesterday at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on Market Street. Jack Dorsey, the CEO, spoke about the goals for the company.

Areas covered were:
Improving Timeline
Notifications
Safety, with regard ti transparency, better tools, and deep learning & machine learning

Dorsey talked about three major improvements:

  1. Twitter Lite – for Safari or Chrome on mobile devices
    30% faster load times
    Uses less than 1 meg of data
    Looks identical to the app
    Can turn on Data Saver – all images, videos, gifs blurred
    Reduce data usage by 70%
  2. Explore tab -brings everything together
    Trends, Moments, Live Events
  3. Mute – Safety control
    Notifications -muted words -pause and not see

Anthony Noto, Twitter’s CFO, then spoke. He talked about the Live Streaming Video and expansion into:
Sports
News
Entertainment
ESports

He said that in Q1, there was 800 hours of live video content, over 450 events, with more than 200 premium content partners.

All the shareholder resolutions passed except the one that proposed that Twitter become a user owned company. The proposal said:

“A community-owned Twitter could result in new and reliable revenue streams, since we, as users, could buy in as co-owners, with a stake in the platform’s success. Without the short-term pressure of the stock markets, we can realize Twitter’s potential value, which the current business model has struggled to do for many years. We could set more transparent accountable rules for handling abuse. We could re-open the platform’s data to spur innovation. Overall, we’d all be invested in Twitter’s success and sustainability. Such a conversion could also ensure a fairer return for the company’s existing investors than other options.”

The questions and answers were related to looking into a Twitter Prime type service where some users could pay for a premium service, and utilizing artificial intelligence through machine learning and deep learning for timelines and notifications.