Text Message Production Tweetmare Repair
For all the broken threads...there is salvation here.
Today, we saw a couple of exhibits appear in redacted form on the docket that were somewhat interesting, if not in a rubber-necking method, also for a couple of glimpses into legal issues as well. But, to be honest, it was mostly good ol’ fashioned gossip.
Being, as I was, under the lingering influence of dental drugs intended to incentivize participation in a robust and regularized oral hygiene program, I just dove in feet first and tried to keep swimming.
One or two tweets got deleted after it came to light that they had personal email addresses in them, although the parties no longer seem to trouble themselves over such details, it falls to me to determine whether or not I do. But, regardless of how future decisions on that point go, today, I broke a couple of Twitter threads with such deletions, and tragically had a tangled mess of tweetstorming madness without any hope of hunting and gathering.
But, enter Substack! It actually does a pretty decent job of threading tweets back together, so here we go—all the sordid and silly DM jokes, just for you.
First things first, the initial text messages seemed to explain my very own existence, in that moment, as an entity account on Twitter:
NO WAY lol — 1/24-1/31, 2022, a legendary tale
Look what happened six days before Elon kicked off his Twitter buying spree that has led us all to this very day, here together.
He got locked out of his account and it was a pain in the ass to get back in.
I'm not even joking.
The Chancery Daily @chancery_daily
From there, things just started to roll:
This metadata suggests that Elon’s phone has an entry for “jack jack”
jack jack & elon elon
"A new platform is needed. It can't be a company."
"Ok. What should it look like?"
"I'd like to help if I'm able to," he says, by then owning 63,464,225 shares. Jack says he tried to get Elon on the board previously, but the board was "too risk averse".
Elon both getting overtures from the Twitter board now that he owns 9.2% (at the time) and messages from Larry Ellison about how we do
"need another Twitter 👍"
hey, yo? I heard you're going to pick up a Twitter at the store, I was kinda feeling like one, too. maybe we go in on one and split it?
I absolutely buried the lede on that last tweet below because I missed the response from elon lol
"Does he have huge amounts of money?" lolol
💸💸💸💸💸💸
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look what a mess your DMs become when word starts to get around that you're amassing shares and are the richest man on earth lol
"Why don't you buy Twitter? We run it for you."
the board really trying to get elon on the phone to talk, he's like, yeah bra, I'm up 'til 3am on the reg
this is weird — right after the 13-d disclosure, right during board negotiations, elon's fielding a bunch of people who want to invest/be involved, and then this set of messages has a redacted recipient/sender...
I feel for Elon here — as does every baby lawyer the second they pass the bar and old friends & family start calling with this question, but maybe not with respect to Twitter 🤣
but then shortly thereafter, the board seat is back on, and Martha says "I apologize about the bump of the first agreement. I'm not a good manager of lawyers."
(always blame the lawyers, it's a go-to)
and then it looks like it's back on, and public announcement
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ouch lol
jack slams the board to elon, but praises parag, elon asks jack to "please be super vocal if there is something dumb I'm doing or not doing."
I have to admit, I did not see a Rick & Morty cross-over here, but perhaps it was right in front of my face.
Elon is funny, y'all.
"I will be universally beloved, since it is so easy to please everyone on twitter."
also, BL Lee suggests Bill Gurley as Twitter CEO and Joe Rogan wants to throw a party
"Roughly what dollar size? The deal is oversubscribed." -- Elon
"A billion ... or whatever you recommend" -- Larry Ellison
Life is weird.
evergreen tweet in the collapse of our financial system:
"what's going on with you marketing an SPV to randos"
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so far, I think this is my favorite message from Elon:
"At my Mom's apartment, doing Twitter diligence calls."
Six days after the deal was signed! 💫
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oops, wrong image in the tweet below re The Kingdom and the random reporter — here's the right one https://t.co/Wdn3jHYdbw
I love it when smart people have nuanced ideas that will definitely not run into execution problems in implementation.
phosz @Olufemi_Ak
elon and parag bonding over being engineering-types who got put in leadership positions, who just wanna do design work
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if y'all want to comb through these texts or a list of all the contacts that musk identified (except for the ones redacted) & a whole bunch of lawyers being lawyers that will bore you to tears but also this exchange is priceless
chancery.ink/textmsgs
who are justin roiland's friends david and daniel?
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what did I tell you
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this one kind of seems to sum up some of the vibes elon had about "I'll do the software" that I think he and parag didn't see eye-to-eye on.
also, fair enough not having a linkedin account lol and Jurvetson being a good dad lol
someone has to redo this song but with a grande latte1
please @BrunoMars be a hero
youtube.com/watch?v=SR6iYW…
Jeremy Raper @puppyeh1
also, when you are in the middle of unwinding a huge new job role you were offerred and turning it into the tender offer of a lifetime, & your family won't stfu and stop talking about web3 omg this is too funny in context
also, I didn't highlight kimbal's msgs in red idk who did
well played, granade
jason@calacanis.com @Jason
my eyes were burning from that other format so I made it better
The Chancery Daily @chancery_daily
I was completely unfair to Kimbal here, these were actually from Elon to Kimbal
it was truly unfair for me to put the crypto stuff on kimbal when people have now pointed out it was elon who started it lol
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OK OK OK stop the tweetesses 🤣🤣🤣 @jfleming2870 has helped identify something that is not just techbro gossip, but honest-to-goodness relevant to the case out of all this mess
made readable for your eyes, kind of a big deal
Joel Fleming @jfleming2870
billionaires, so normal
from Elon, with love
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I finally figured out the source of the feedback for this epic video quote tweeted below
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don't worry, Governor DeSantis is on the job, he's got ideas on how to make Twitter better
Elon tells Gayle King that maybe Oprah would want in on the deal
I don't really get why one or two people get to be redacted names in this whole slew of messages, when everyone else didn't get the same grace — also can't stress enough how these are things you should have thought about well before June 17th.
Still my favorite after all these years…
