Twitter in the Time of Elon Musk

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It was long awaited, and some doubted that it would ever come to pass, but last week, the tech billionaire Elon Musk officially took over Twitter. The platform was once the place of underdogs, a public square that allowed users to challenge the moneyed and powerful. Is that about to change? Guest: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times, and co-host of the Times podcast “Hard Fork.”

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernici, and this is The Daily.
0:12.8	At the beginning, Twitter was a place for underdogs, a public square where people could
0:17.2	challenge those with money and power.
0:20.2	But now, it's owned by the world's wealthiest man, who gets to call all the shots.
0:25.2	Today, I talk to my colleague, Kevin Wuse, about Twitter's next chapter.
0:37.0	It's Tuesday, November 1st.
0:44.9	So Kevin, I'm just going to say it.
0:47.1	Elon Musk finally owns Twitter.
0:50.5	Serial, isn't it?
0:52.1	Completely.
0:53.1	I've had to digest it over the past few days as well, because this is this thing that has
0:58.2	been looming as a possibility for so long.
1:00.7	But a lot of people kind of doubted that it would ever come to pass.
1:04.4	And now, here we are.
1:06.5	And Kevin, when the deal finally went through, there were these photos that emerged of Musk
1:11.0	actually walking into the headquarters of Twitter carrying a sink.
1:14.6	Like, what was that?
1:16.7	You know, the best anyone's guess is that it was just a prop for the ensuing joke that he
1:21.9	made on Twitter, which was let that sink in.
1:26.6	Ah, but I'm sure.
1:28.6	Oh, boy.
1:29.6	I was going to say, can we get a rim shot?
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