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Elon Musk's Twitter take over rises from the ashes

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, Technology, News

4.3227 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk wanted Twitter, then he didn't - and now he does again. Why has he changed his mind and what does it mean for Twitter? Our Silicon Valley reporter James Clayton guides us through the latest twists and turns in tech's most dysfunctional courtship. Also this week can anyone challenge Google's search engine supremacy?

Transcript

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0:00.0

On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.

0:04.7

Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

0:05.6

And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:08.3

In this series, we're going to have a planet off.

0:10.8

I feel like Jupiter wins.

0:12.8

And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.

0:15.9

We're talking about your bog standard.

0:17.8

Ice, not the fancy one.

0:20.1

Science with funny bits.

0:21.9

The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:24.1

Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

0:31.2

Welcome back to the tech tent where the conversation around the campfire has been dominated once again by a certain flamboyant billionaire

0:37.9

and his attempts to buy, not buy, and then buy again a certain social network. More on Elon Musk and

0:44.1

Twitter in a moment. Also this week, ask anyone what search engine they use and you can be pretty

0:49.5

sure what you'll get. So what's your favourite search engine? Google. Google as well.

0:56.0

Google. Google. My most favourite is Google. We hear from the former Google insider trying to take on

1:04.3

his old employer and the startup that thinks it's got the tonic for subscription fatigue.

1:12.1

It's been a takeover unlike any other.

1:15.0

First, Twitter tried to stop Elon Musk buying it,

1:18.8

but he went ahead and made an eye-wateringly large offer anyway.

1:22.5

Then, when the offer was accepted,

1:25.1

Musk spent months slating the company

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