What Elon Wants With Twitter
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Twitter is the platform of choice for politicians, journalists, academics, and many other agenda-setters. Twitter influences conversations that take place in newsrooms and statehouses. What happens if the company’s placed in the hands of a pugnacious, provocative plutocrat like Elon Musk?
Guest: Will Oremus, tech reporter for the Washington Post
Host: Seth Stevenson
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| 0:00.0 | There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because |
| 0:05.4 | I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period is just |
| 0:10.7 | for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my records |
| 0:15.9 | will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance. |
| 0:18.8 | Joy in every sip with Red Cups now Back at Starbucks. |
| 0:30.5 | Lately Willa Remus has been feeling a little queasy. |
| 0:34.2 | It's just been twists and turns and drama. |
| 0:37.6 | Like as someone covering this I've had the feeling that like let me off this ride feeling |
| 0:43.2 | sick. |
| 0:44.2 | Willa is a Washington Post writer who reports on the world of tech. |
| 0:47.9 | These days that means a lot of reporting about Elon Musk and his $44 billion bid to buy |
| 0:53.5 | Twitter. |
| 0:54.8 | Some people were shocked to hear that the richest man in the world, the founder of Tesla |
| 0:58.8 | and SpaceX would spend that much to buy a social media company that over a history has |
| 1:03.7 | mostly lost money but not will. |
| 1:07.2 | It's hard to be stunned by anything Musk does. |
| 1:09.4 | He's a guy these days who enjoys provoking. |
| 1:13.2 | He enjoys sparking conversation and outrage and trolling people and as long as he's the |
| 1:19.0 | center of attention he seems to be pretty happy. |
| 1:21.8 | I think the only really surprising thing here is the idea that he might actually want |
| 1:26.0 | the responsibility of running this platform that is probably going to make him hate it |
| 1:32.7 | by a lot of people no matter what he does. |
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