In all of my time reporting on Elon, I've learned to not report things until he does them

because he often says something and then changes his mind or, you know, it never comes to fruition.

That being said, I mean, hearing him and Trump talk

on X spaces about this government efficiency commission.

It just reminds me of the scene in the book

where Elon calls a big staff meeting on a Saturday and has everyone come in and he starts going through

Twitter's budget line by line and making anyone who's spending money account for what they're spending and why and if people can't

answer him about why they need to spend the money he's firing them on the spot and I

think that that's something that Elon would love to do with the federal

government and you know I think something that's something that Elon would love to do with the federal government.

And I think he might at least go once to OMB and ask them to see a spreadsheet and then

maybe he'll get bored. I'm John Favreau.

I'm Max Fisher.

And you just heard from today's guest Technology reporter

at the New York Times and

author of the new book Character Limit Kate Conger. Big Kate fan. She's awesome and I

love the book. So we've done quite a few Twitter Death Watch segments here

on the show.

Kate and her Times colleague Ryan Mack have written the book about Elon's takeover and subsequent deterioration of the how and why he bought the company and the decisions he's made since.

We talk about all that and Kate answers some burning questions that addicts like me have about

the future of the platform once known as Twitter.com. I'm still calling a Twitter. It's still Twitter. I'm still calling it

Twitter. It's still Twitter. I know whenever I see it

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