Six months of Musk: How Elon changed Twitter
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The Times
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🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, he has brought about sweeping changes – but how successful have they been? And what impact has his purchase of the social media platform had on his many other businesses?
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| 0:00.0 | It's the social media platform that's been compared to a town square where all walks |
| 0:13.3 | of life meet. And six months ago, it got a new owner. |
| 0:17.7 | Elon Musk has now completed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter after months of legal battles |
| 0:24.4 | and he's changed his own Twitter title to Chief Twitt. |
| 0:27.8 | Despite a rocky start, it's still here. |
| 0:33.6 | Elon Musk had bold plans from the start. |
| 0:36.3 | In just a week, Musk has already fired top executives and dissolved the company's board of directors. |
| 0:41.4 | He's also rolled out plans for users to pay $8 a month to remain verified. |
| 0:46.8 | As if running a social media platform wasn't enough, Musk is also making cars, |
| 0:56.3 | borrowing under cities, putting chips into animals' brains, |
| 1:00.3 | and trying to send the most powerful rocket ever built into space. |
| 1:17.3 | Is this all too much, even for Elon Musk? |
| 1:28.8 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 1:33.2 | I'm Jenny Cleeman. Today, six months of Musk, how Elon changed Twitter. |
| 1:47.6 | So much has happened at Twitter since Musk took over six months ago. |
| 1:56.5 | It's hard to recall it. Luckily, the Sunday Times West Coast correspondent Danny Fawtson |
| 2:01.8 | does remember it all. So I think the operative word here is chaos. |
| 2:07.8 | So you may recall the first day after he finally agreed to buy this company because for the |
| 2:13.9 | previous couple of months, he'd been trying every which way to back out of the deal to not buy |
| 2:19.3 | the company because he bought it at the top of the market for a very, very big price, $44 billion. |
| 2:25.6 | He walks through the door carrying a sink, like a porcelain sink. |
| 2:33.9 | As in, the joke being, let that sink in. Ha, ha, ha, very funny. |
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