Can Twitter survive Elon Musk? (And can Musk survive Twitter?)
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:07.3 | Today, can Twitter survive Elon Musk and can Musk survive Twitter? |
| 0:19.6 | It's the deal that Twitter's executives initially didn't want, |
| 0:23.0 | and then they did, and that Elon Musk wanted until he didn't anymore. |
| 0:27.8 | But last week, Elon took over Twitter today. |
| 0:31.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.1 | Like, we live in a simulation. |
| 0:33.8 | No, that's the best. |
| 0:34.6 | That crazy bastard did it. |
| 0:36.1 | After months of legal wrangling, it happened. |
| 0:38.9 | The following simple declaration, the bird is freed. |
| 0:43.6 | The world's richest man, the entrepreneur Elon Musk, |
| 0:47.0 | became the new private owner of Twitter. |
| 0:50.5 | And Alex Hurn, the Guardian's UK technology editor, |
| 0:54.1 | was watching his first day in charge. |
| 0:56.4 | Let's start with the kitchen sink. |
| 0:58.0 | Let's start with the kitchen sink. |
| 0:59.0 | He posted on Twitter a video of him entering the company's headquarters, |
| 1:03.1 | carrying a basin. |
| 1:04.6 | The joke there is that he is in the building, |
| 1:07.9 | and he wants Twitter staff for that to sink in. |
| 1:10.8 | The idea that this is real, that he... |
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