What Elon Wants With Twitter
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 23 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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| 1:08.0 | Lately Will Arimis has been feeling a little queasy. It's just been twists and turns and you know, |
| 1:14.2 | drama. Like as someone covering this, I've had the feeling that like, let me off this ride, |
| 1:20.2 | you know, I'm feeling sick. Will is a Washington Post writer who reports on the world of tech. |
| 1:25.4 | These days, that means a lot of reporting about Elon Musk and his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter. |
| 1:32.3 | Some people were shocked to hear that the richest man in the world, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, |
| 1:37.4 | would spend that much to buy a social media company that over a history has mostly lost money. |
| 1:43.2 | But not Will. It's hard to be stunned by anything Musk does. He's a guy these days who |
| 1:48.5 | enjoys provoking. He enjoys sparking conversation and outrage and trolling people. And as long as he's |
| 1:56.5 | the center of attention, he seems to be pretty happy. So, you know, I think the only really |
| 2:01.1 | surprising thing here is the idea that he might actually want the responsibility of running |
| 2:06.0 | this platform that is, you know, it's probably going to make him hated by a lot of people no matter |
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