Why Is Musk Buying Twitter? I Thought He Was A Technologist Doing Great Things.

Why Is Musk Buying Twitter? I Thought He Was A Technologist Doing Great Things.

BERLIN, GERMANY DECEMBER 01: SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the ... [+] Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images) Is that what's going on with Musk and Twitter? Is it just a spectacle? Is it a distraction for "the most influential individual in the world"? Is he just trolling the media he wants to influence? Why in the world would the richest man in the world want to own Twitter? Or take it private? Or decide what's OK and what's not on a social media platform that reaches hundreds of millions of people? (Did I just answer my own question?) So what the hell is going on with this Twitter thing? Tesla, The Boring Company, SpaceX and Neuralink are all technology Musketeers. Twitter? While the others are technology companies, Twitter is something else. (Maybe he just wants to rewrite the algorithms)? As his Tweets have already revealed, he wants something else. He wants influence, control and power over the expression, interpretation and sharing of ideas, apparently regardless of their accuracy, value or the risk they might demonstrate. Musk appears to want a piece