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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Elon for the ride: How has Musk's Twitter dream fallen apart?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Podmasters

News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Everyone predicted it would fall apart immediately, but it didn’t. Six months later, Twitter seems to be chugging along but how long can it last? Kasia Tomasiewicz speaks with head of digital at iNews, Luke Bailey, to discuss Elon’s grand plan for the bird app.  “Musk is asking people to pay to see poor quality tweets and have people yell at them.”  “He’s pulled everything apart to find out just why Twitter made the decision in the first place.” “The twitter files exposed that there was a left wing bias but they were trying really hard to keep the platform balanced.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Kasia Tomasiewicz. Produced by Liam Tait. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Simon Williams. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I loved going to college.

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It's been six months since Elon Musk took over Twitter.

1:19.0

Frequent users will tell you that anecdotally,

1:22.0

the functionality of the site has gone down the toilet.

1:25.1

But Musk insists that every change he's made, from charging for blue check marks

1:31.0

to amplifying the visibility of his own tweets has made the platform better.

1:36.6

So how is it really going for Twitter?

1:39.9

Was it 44 billion dollars well spent?

1:42.7

And where to next for the site that like it or loathe it is a vital source

1:47.0

for global news, political communications and cute pictures of cats? With me to unpack this is Luke Bailey, head of digital at the Eye Paper and formerly an editor at

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