Twitter's Elon Musk Era Begins — With Christopher Mims

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Christopher Mims is a tech columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Elon Musk's ascent to Twitter's board this week and purchase of 9.2% of the company's shares. Join us for a deep conversation about what Elon might be up to, how much power he'll have, how Twitter employees are responding, and where this likey leads.

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0:58.0	Elon Musk has a now has a 9% stake in Twitter, and he's also joined the board as of yesterday.
1:06.2	And this is a pretty big story, major story, something that Twitter's been buzzing about, and I think you're going to hear a lot about as we start moving forward into the Elon era of Twitter.
1:18.6	I can't believe I actually just said that.
1:20.2	Well, our guest today to discuss it is none other than Chris Mims.
1:23.9	He's a technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal and also the author of arriving
1:27.6	today from factory to front door by everything has changed about how and what we buy. It's a great
1:33.5	book. You should go pick it up. Chris, welcome to the show. Yeah, thank you for having me. I'm very
1:38.5	excited to talk about this topic. This is going to be a fun one. There's so much to talk about.
1:44.4	What was your reaction when you heard that Elon was first buying into Twitter and then joining the board?
1:49.7	I was baffled, but that's because Twitter's algorithm has not been showing me Elon's tweets lately, despite my keen interest in them.
1:59.4	So hopefully that's one of the things he will improve first. Now we know. Yeah, it'll be like when the YouTube album showed up in everybody's
2:06.2	iTunes catalog, like Elon's tweets will just automatically appear at the top of your algorithmic feed
2:12.0	every time you log in is. I'm sure the first change he's going to make. That's right. Yeah. I mean,
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