Meek Mill apparently isn’t the one superstar all for shopping for TikTok as is it nears the twenty third hour earlier than its nationwide ban goes into impact.
The Costly Ache rapper made his intentions clear on Monday (January 13), in typical trend on Twitter in a string of temporary and clear minimize tweets. Within the first message he shared, he was blatant in his try to determine himself as a purchaser for the favored social media platform owned by guardian firm ByteDance.
“Promote tik tok to me!” Meek wrote in his preliminary tweet.
Promote tik tok to me!
— MeekMill (@MeekMill) January 14, 2025
In one other comment Meek Mill added, “In the event that they minimize off tik tok we going x and FANBASE.”
Preliminary response to Meek’s petition to purchase TikTok wasn’t properly obtained. The truth is, it was mocked by a number of customers within the thread of replies within the tweet.
“Why would they promote TikTok to ur broke freaky ahh,” one person wrote in a tweet, to which one other added, “Nah you get dik dok.”
Contemplating the immense valuation of TikTok, one other person remarked, “With all due respect i don’t suppose you have got the psychological or monetary capability to run it.”
Quite the opposite, a completely totally different response was generated when multi-millionaire YouTube content-creator MrBeast tweeted his personal ploy to purchase the app.
“Okay fantastic, I’ll purchase Tik Tok so it doesn’t get banned,” MrBeast wrote within the tweet.
The replies within the thread of MrBeast’s tweets had been drastically totally different and, for probably the most half, mirrored person’s perception that he’s the correct particular person to take management of TikTok.
“Higher you than anybody else,” a person wrote in a tweet within the thread. “I don’t actually see you having an agenda, not like the others that wish to purchase it.”
And apparently, it’s not simply people on Twitter who’re invested within the concept of MrBeast shopping for TikTok. MrBeast adopted up in an extra tweet revealing a number of rich traders reached out to him since he shared the tweet.
“Unironically I’ve had so many billionaires attain out to me since I tweeted this, let’s see if we will pull this off,” he wrote within the tweet.
Unironically I’ve had so many billionaires attain out to me since I tweeted this, let’s see if we will pull this off 🙌🏻
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) January 14, 2025
But when it’s not Meek or MrBeast, apparently Elon Musk goes to be the person to purchase the app. Regardless of a TikTok rep calling the notion “pure fiction,” the Tesla CEO continues to be a favourite to change into a possible purchaser—primarily as a result of he’s the world’s richest man.
In keeping with Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives probably price $100 billion, as long as the algorithm is connected. Nevertheless, with out the algorithm, it may very well be price a fraction of that.
“We imagine China and ByteDance won’t ever promote this with the golden jewel algorithm. With out the algorithm we imagine TikTok is price $30 billion to $40 billion,” he informed CBS MoneyWatch.
Since Musk purchased Twitter (X) in 2022, a $44 billion deal it doesn’t appear far off.
TikTok faces the specter of being banned within the U.S. beneath a regulation set to take impact on January 19, until the Supreme Court docket intervenes to dam it. On January 10, the Supreme Court docket heard arguments in TikTok’s emergency attraction, with the corporate and its guardian asserting that the regulation violates the First Modification rights of its 170 million U.S. customers.
Nevertheless, the justices appeared extra receptive to the federal government’s stance that TikTok poses a nationwide safety danger on account of its ties to the Chinese language Communist Social gathering. President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly requested the Supreme Court docket droop the regulation from going into impact on January 19 to present his administration the possibility to work on a “negotiated decision that might stop a nationwide shutdown of TikTok, thus preserving the First Modification rights of tens of hundreds of thousands of People, whereas additionally addressing the federal government’s nationwide safety considerations.”
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