What Elon Musk’s Shakeup of Twitter Means For the Bay Area

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Elon Musk took ownership of the San Francisco based social media network Twitter less than a week ago and he’s already overhauling the company. Musk immediately fired several executives and board members and news organizations have reported that mass layoffs could be imminent. He also tweeted he wants to charge a monthly fee for users to retain verified status. We dive into what this new era at Twitter means for the Bay Area, users and the social media landscape. Guests: Annalee Newitz, Science journalist and author of "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction" - Newitz is also the author of the novels "The Future of Another Timeline," and "Autonomous." Website: techsploitation.com Damon Beres, senior editor focused on technology, The Atlantic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.0	Elon Musk, you may have heard, completed his purchase of Twitter after a protracted battle over, well, pretty much everything. But now the Tesla guy, the SpaceX guy, the solar guy, has effective control over Twitter.
1:02.0	The purchase at quite a high price comes amidst a collapse in the value of technology companies
1:06.0	in the eyes of investors.
1:08.0	Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has lost three quarters of a trillion dollars
1:12.6	in market value.
1:13.6	A broad array of other tech companies are in the tank too.
1:16.6	So this hour, we're going to talk about the wild times at Twitter and the bearish times for
1:20.6	tech workers.
1:21.6	Is the whole social media era coming to an end?
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