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1. Jerome Paulos 30 min later

   @zachleat Tumblr also lasted 6 years before being sold for 0.3% of the previous price.

   1. Zach Leatherman 58 min later

      @jero I’m saving my pennies to buy twitter

2. Ben Brignell 31 min later

   @zachleat my favourite was Bebo. Sold to AOL for $850m, it quickly tanked and then in 2013 the original founders bought it back for $1m.

   1. Zach Leatherman 58 min later

      @ben ha, yes! whew!

3. Voradams 52 min later

   @zachleat to be fair, even then Rupert shows restraint by only pissing millions not billions against the wall. Who thought Rupert would compare favorably to anyone else?

4. Evan B🥥ehs 1 hr later

   @zachleat Zach, I just did the math and that is a net gain of 545 million dollars! I'm taking notes...

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @eb I also received all of my maths training from crypto coin university 😅

5. Ingo Steinke 1 hr later

   @zachleat then everyone had to use Facebook for years to come. At least, now we will upgrade by coming back to the fediverse.

6. mattlqx 4 hr later

   @zachleat Fast forward to 2030, gonna be a similar story about Elon methinks.