To those who thought that the confirmation of the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk had reached the end of the soap opera, reality had something very, very different ready for us. In fact, and we continue to compare soap operas, we can consider this moment to be the end of the first season, whose managers have not yet signed the renewal and, out of courtesy to their followers, have decided to end without cliffhangersbut with plenty of room for what may come next.

A few days after the end of the broadcast of the first series comes the contract of extension, in the shadow of great success with the public and critics and what looked like a closed end is starting to seep everywhere, to the comfort of an audience very satisfied with the care of the super rich. Inés Rodena, with her mythical “Rich Crying Also”, revealed what we are going through these days. Television has not only been a huge success, but she has also added clairvoyance to her biography.

they came first calls to purchase Twitter or at least the conditions defined for it. Some retirement plan managers with Twitter investments believed that a lack of adequate time to properly review the parameters of the merger could jeopardize their investments and thus their clients’ retirement pensions. Something that, I think, will take into account the regulators that need to oversee operations.

ANDn Further acquisition operations are a key aspect of discretion. We recently saw how Microsoft completed the acquisition of Zenimax and how NVIDIA did not eventually take ownership of ARM Holdings. Two operations with different results, in which, however, all parties were very discreet during the process. Of course, if you shop on Twitter, expect Elon Musk to be discreet, not asking for elm pears, it’s like planting a 50-cent coin and waiting for a tree of 100-euro bills.

Because, and it must admit Like it or not, Elon Musk is a loudmouth.. With better or worse intentions, with successes and failures that remain in memory, but we are talking about a real loudmouth, one of those who, when he speaks, goes up (or down) bread Bitcoin and in recent weeks, especially before but also after the confirmation of the acquisition, has not spared comments on Twitter in all directions.

Just two days ago, by saying this, he dealt a blow the operation was suspended until the actual volume of fake Twitter accounts could be verified. Twitter provided some data on the volume of real users of the service a few weeks before confirming the purchase, and one would think that Musk had already done some research on this before starting the purchase. Because we don’t want to think you could have embarked on such an ambitious operation without doing your homework before, do you?

Be that as it may, the announcement of the suspension of the operation was followed by some tweets (of course, how could it be otherwise), with one in particular in which he stated that he would carry out his own checks on the matter (how ?, that he had not done it before? I am surprised …) and that he would perform measurements with 100 random accounts. , the same amount that Twitter used to perform that verification.

The problem is in the bold part of the last paragraph. Of course, Twitter conducted this test based on 100 random accounts. And how does Elon Musk know? Because this information is included in the contract signed between the two parties. So far good, except for one detail, and that one both parties have signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). In other words, Elon Musk issued something he promised not to publish in writing. Something he himself admitted, a posteriori, in another tweet.

It’s getting clear every day that Musk wasn’t the smartest in his class, but I don’t think he’s so stupid that he doesn’t realize he’s revealed something he shouldn’t. So what is this attitude? What are you looking for in that provocation? Maybe distract from regulators? Maybe renegotiate the purchase amount? Excuse to retreat after realizing the financial implications of the operation? I wish I knew, but we still have a few episodes before we get there.