Twitter's tumultuous first week under Elon Musk
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Tech Tent analyses Elon Musk's first few days in charge of Twitter. Cyber reporter Joe Tidy meets the people pouring millions of dollars into the Metaverse, before it even exists. Is it finally time to say farewell to the fax? And the social media mix up involving Premier League Star Erling Haaland and a Swedish tourist board.
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.8 | Welcome back to TechTent, where as we gaze across the countryside in front of us, |
| 0:36.0 | our attention is distracted once more by a certain blue bird. |
| 0:40.4 | More on Elon Musk's tumultuous first week at Twitter in a moment. |
| 0:44.5 | Also this week, our cyber reporter meets the investors so convinced the metaphors is the future |
| 0:49.8 | that they're ploughing a small fortune into a virtual world that doesn't even exist yet. |
| 0:55.1 | We reflect on the life and times of the facts, |
| 0:58.3 | as UK regulators give it a sharp push towards the dustbin of history. |
| 1:02.7 | And the Starstriker, the Swedish Tourist Board, |
| 1:06.5 | and a very unlikely case of mistaken online identity. |
| 1:12.5 | Firstly, as we recorded this show last week, Elon Musk's Twitter takeover was fairly imminent. |
| 1:18.9 | A week on and the social media platform is firmly under the control of the self-styled chief twit, |
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