If you use twitter as an auth point for other websites you should switch now as a bankruptcy filing might also include a twitter site shut down.
What odds you taking? I'll take 1:4 odds of bankruptcy in Jan 2023 up to £500 (e.g. I get £125 if it doesnt go bankrupt then and you get £500 if it does).
But still, this is a very good reminder about using twitter as login somewhere else!
And now they’ve been saddled with debt whose interest is equal to about their annual revenues before 50% of their largest advertisers stopped advertising.
And they’ve certainly exposed themselves to massive FCC and EU fines.
I think Jan 2023 is way too early, but Twitter has a lot of financial footguns just waiting to go off.
Easy money.
edit: oh god there are two more people doing the "Oh I'll bet! How much?" - I've seen this hundreds of times before. Someone states their honest opinion on here, and a handful of others chime in trying to goad them into staking money on it. When they obviously don't (because why on earth would they?) they get accused of being insincere, not being willing to stake "real" money on it (with perhaps the implication that they're small-fry, and do not have the means to do so unlike the wealthy, high-rolling proposer of the wager), or whatever. It's childish, nobody thinks you're cool and nobody believes you'd actually make a frivolous 10k bet with a pseudonymous person.
Also I didn't goad anybody into doing anything: they offered to bet and I took the bait (and then edited their post to remove the request for betting). Not the other way around.
If you're not willing to bet, then don't create a post on the internet stating that you're willing to bet? simple.
This is not a betting platform and tbh I think dang et al would get in trouble if it turned out HN was facilitating some form of gambling. In reality trying to make someone put money behind their predictions is a way to try to make them back down, look silly/small/cheap and as I said originally, it is childish. Don't do it.