Welcome to the Tech Meme Bride Home for Thursday, April 28th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Twitter reports earnings for maybe the last time publicly.

Meta's earnings weren't that bad, but mostly because the table was set for it.

Apple faces antitrust charges in the EU as soon as next week.

Another country adopts Bitcoin as currency, and would you like a dedicated

Metaverse room in your next house?

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Will this

last earnings call ever? Maybe we'll have another one or maybe two depending on the

deal time frame, but I would imagine we'll never have one with any meaning again.

Twitter this morning reported Q1 revenue of $1.2 billion,

which was up 16% year over year, but was below estimates.

And $113 million in net income.

Monotizable daily active users, Twitter's favorite metric, reached

229 million.

So it was not the disaster that people were expecting as an explanation for

why Twitter's board jumped at

Elon's bid but also clearly no sign of some miraculous business turn around

anytime soon either. Things extrapolating from these numbers were just going to

continue pretty much as they have been.

Oh, but the old Twitter, the Twitter we've always known and always kind of loved, I guess,

was always capable of weird stuff like this.

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