Musk and Twitter: The end or a new beginning?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Patterson speaks to our technology reporter Tom Acres about what has happened since Musk took over. Also, former Twitter EMEA Vice President Bruce Daisley helps us understand the culture of Twitter, and Silicon Valley historian Margaret O’Mara on its future.
Producers: Soila Apparicio and Rosie Gillott
Junior Producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Interviews Producer: Alys Bowen
Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
| 0:04.0 | Fine, she'd say. |
| 0:06.0 | She clearly wasn't. |
| 0:07.0 | After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. |
| 0:11.0 | Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, |
| 0:15.0 | same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
| 0:19.0 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. |
| 0:23.2 | Can't get a word in. |
| 0:24.9 | Give your skills new life. |
| 0:26.5 | Train others. |
| 0:27.7 | Search jobs in further education. |
| 0:30.1 | Pain in my hip. |
| 0:32.4 | I keep feeling dizzy. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm getting migraines more often. |
| 0:39.6 | There's another way to contact your GP practice by simply sending your symptoms and requests |
| 0:45.2 | through their website or the NHS app. We're delivering an NHS fit for the future. |
| 0:51.7 | Tap it, type it and we'll take care of it. |
| 0:56.8 | Julia, how do you spell vertebrae? |
| 0:58.6 | Oh, just tight pain in the neck. |
| 1:09.4 | You don't need 280 characters to explain the positives and the negatives of Twitter. |
| 1:14.6 | It can be a wonderful, democratising, liberating platform to give people a voice, |
| 1:18.0 | but it also can have a really spiteful and unpleasant side. |
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