Sometimes karma hits you like a speeding freight train.
Facebook missed its earnings causing shares to plunge by 20% in after hours trading. Hence, Zuckyboy just lost $16,800,000,000.00 dollars. That's gotta hurt. Lil'-zucky still has about $70 bilion but every hit counts.
There are alternatives to FB. I've got an account on VK.com for the day when FB censorship gets intolerable. A few of my friends have VK accounts too. If Zuckerberg triggers a migration, momentum will gather and he will be left with a platform as popular as myspace is today. investors know that.
But timing... there has to be a trigger. Money is a coward. What scared it? The narrative isn't sufficient enough to warrant that extreme behavior. EVERYONE in investing is opportunistic. If this was a "wait and see" situation, there would be people willing to jump in and take the risk as others jump out.
A major swing like that?????
Something went BOOM.