What next for Twitter now Elon Musk is on board?
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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This week, Tech Tent speaks to Professor Brooke Erin Duffy about what Elon Musk investing in Twitter could mean for the social platform. The curator of TED, Chris Anderson, gives details about the return of the conference in person. And Kay Wackwitz, from Drone Industry Insights, considers a major expansion of deliveries by unmanned aircraft in the US.
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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. The new series of the infinite monkey cage listen on radio four and BBC sounds |
| 0:26.6 | hello and welcome to tech tent with me jane wakefield this week we learn that tech serial entrepreneur Elon Musk has a new toy, |
| 0:39.6 | Twitter. This is what he said about it on 60 Minutes on CBS a few years ago. |
| 0:44.8 | I used my tweets to express myself. Some people use their hair. I use Twitter. |
| 0:50.5 | We ask what is next for the social media platform now. He is a major investor. |
| 0:55.3 | Plus the TED, Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference is back. |
| 0:59.7 | Ahead of its opening, I ask the head of TED, Chris Anderson, if you remains an optimist, |
| 1:04.3 | despite the war in Ukraine and the pandemic. |
| 1:07.2 | And with me this week is the BBC's technology reporter Chris Valence. |
| 1:10.7 | And Chris, you've been looking at drone deliveries. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah, hi Jane, yes. Alphabet-owned drone delivery business wing has just further expanded its operations in the US. |
| 1:19.6 | Now in parts of Dallas, Texas, people will be able to get their ice cream winched down to them from a hovering drone. |
| 1:26.3 | So has the drone delivery business come of age? |
| 1:29.2 | One drone company boss spills the coffee beans. |
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