Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, September 8th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Disney's former CEO throws another lifeline to

Elon Musk in his Twitter suit.

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Kara Swisher is hosting her final Code conference right now, end of an era, but while speaking

at Code on stage, former Disney CEO Bob Eiger said the company found a

substantial portion of Twitter users were not real when it was considering

buying Twitter back in 2016, quoting Peter Kafka in Vox.

Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter, then he decided he didn't.

Bob Eiger can relate.

In 2016, Eager then the CEO of Disney had convinced himself that his company should own Twitter because it would be an excellent way to distribute Disney's content around the world.

Then, shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, he bailed out.

Eiger has told parts of this story before, but it always seemed confusing to me. In his 2019

memoir, he said the boards of both Disney and Twitter had agreed to the deal,

but then he had second thoughts because of the, quote, nastiness rampant at Twitter.

Really?

Wasn't the nastiness readily apparent to anyone who'd ever use the service for a second, let

alone to someone who was ready to spend billions on it?

But today we got a longer version of the story relayed by Eiger at the Code Conference in response to a question from the verges Alex Heath.

In this one, Eiger says that Twitter would have been a phenomenal distribution platform for Disney,

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