I used my tweets to express myself. Some people use their hair. I used Twitter.

This week's number one trending topic was the announcement of Elon Musk's potential

purchase of Twitter, the app many of us have come to call the Hellside.

Twitter is a war zone. Somebody's going to jump on the war zone. It's like, okay, you're

in there, Reena. Let's go.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Also on this week's show, How to Build Healthier

Digital Spaces by Taking Lessons from Urban Design.

In our physical civic space, we reserve very little of that space for walking up to strangers

and arguing with them about politics. And that's probably good.

Also, Facebook's new name Mehta and its newly envisioned direction are derived from a popular

science fiction novel. But Zuckerberg's not the first tech bro to borrow from the genre

or miss the dystopian message.

They read the books for the gadgets. It's like reading Playboy for the articles.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm OTM correspondent Michael Lohinger, holding

down the fort this week for Brook Gladstone.

A few weeks ago, we all got word that the richest man on Earth had taken an interest in one

of the internet's biggest forums.

Elon Musk is joining the board of directors, Twitter making that announcement today after

Elon Musk bought a 9% stake in the San Francisco company.

Some analysts looked into their crystal balls and warned that they would be more to come.

This is just the appetizer. Ultimately, we believe that he will have an active stake,

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