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Charlie Warzel

The worst-case scenario for Elon Musk's Twitter

16 mins | Apr 29, 2022
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He could quickly lose interest. Elon Musk is set to purchase the platform for $44billion. But, as this news breaks, one question is standing above others: what does the future hold for Twitter? In this instalment of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel looks at different possibilities, including comparisons to Twitter’s recent past, to analyse what the site could look like under Musk. "As one former senior Twitter employee put it to me... Musk’s musings about [Twitter] are mostly 'highly solipsistic things that are only about his experience of the product as a user with 80 million followers and a consent decree with the SEC.'"

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