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CNN 5 Things

One Thing: Elon Musk Owns Twitter (For Real This Time). Now What?

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

After months of back and forth, billionaire Elon Musk has finally closed on his $44 billion to buy Twitter. We examine how we got here, what changes are in store for the social network, and why the deal could have implications far beyond Silicon Valley.  Guest: Clare Duffy, CNN Business writer To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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There's this saying I've heard a lot over the course of my career in journalism.

0:33.2

Twitter is not real life. It's usually framed as a friendly reminder from an editor.

0:38.4

The idea that what you see being discussed on Twitter or any social media for that matter does not

0:43.9

necessarily reflect what's actually happening on the ground you know do more

0:48.2

digging and there's certainly some truth to that but experts will tell you

0:52.3

Twitter is super influential and it does say

0:55.3

something about the world we live in, for better and for worse. So it would stand to reason

1:01.2

that we should pay pretty close attention to who's in charge of a platform like that.

1:06.4

Which is why this week we got to talk about Elon Musk.

1:17.8

After months of will he or won't he the billionaire finally closed on his deal to buy Twitter late last week. My guest is CNN's Claire Duffy. She covers all things Twitter for CNN business.

1:24.9

We talk about how we got here, the changes that could be coming

1:27.7

to your timeline, and why this is way more

1:30.5

than a Silicon Valley soap opera.

1:33.4

From CNN, this is one thing.

1:35.6

I'm on Twitter a lot more than I care to

1:47.3

admit but I'll take the followers if anybody wants to come on but I guess what I'm

1:51.0

trying to say is for the listeners who are not on Twitter who do not

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