Discussion

• @annmlipton Ann Lipton on x

  “Musk's advisers shared a slide presentation with potential lenders offering his ideas around how Twitter's business could be run, as well as its financial profile and how to boost revenue,...Banks felt good...also because Musk was willing to commit such a large amount of equity”…

• @campuscodi Catalin Cimpanu on x

  You don't say... https://twitter.com/...

• @nistula Nistula Hebbar on x

  “Sometimes Twitter feels like the hot potato of the Internet, or perhaps more like a zone of nuclear radiation. No one wants to take too much responsibility for it”- https://www.newyorker.com/...

• @newyorker @newyorker on x

  Twitter is a notoriously dysfunctional business. What does Elon Musk want with it? https://nyer.cm/1fskhG0

• @mmarkovitz Michael Markovitz on x

  Good piece: “(Twitter) feels overtly weaponized...#Musk wants a #Twitter on which anyone can say anything but that kind of melee is..part of the problem that's causing the service to stagnate. Ownership by 1 of its biggest manipulators wouldn't solve it” https://www.newyorker.com…

• @narne_kumar06 @narne_kumar06 on x

  Why would Elon Musk want to buy twitter ? “Twitter is still at the center of culture-war debates & remains a pulpit from which to t ®0ll public discourse Twitter's status as both a total mess and extremely influential makes it an eternal target: ” https://www.newyorker.com/...

• @cengizyar Cengiz on x

  “Twitter's option for a non-algorithmic feed and lax approach to content moderation, compared with other social networks, make it more immediately risky to use, like handling a loaded gun. It feels overtly weaponized.” ⁦@chaykak⁩ https://www.newyorker.com/...

• @alanmillernlp Alan C. Miller on x

  “The platform is awful—but its delivery of instantaneous feedback to every passing thought is also addictive. It's exploitative—but its ability to amplify any message is unavoidably powerful.” @chaykak https://www.newyorker.com/... via @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/... via…