{"id":36430,"date":"2024-12-13T02:46:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T02:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/character-limit-how-elon-musk-destroyed-twitter\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T02:46:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T02:46:57","slug":"character-limit-how-elon-musk-destroyed-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/character-limit-how-elon-musk-destroyed-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews<\/p>\n

\u201cRiveting . . . Character Limit offers a telling lesson in the cost of getting everything you want.\u201d\u2014The Washington Post<\/p>\n

\u201cYou couldn\u2019t hope for a better ringside seat on the unfolding drama . . . [Character Limit] is a triumph.\u201d\u2014The Guardian<\/p>\n

\u201cMasterful in how it paints a picture and puts you in the room with the famous entrepreneur . . . Character Limit is a page turner.\u201d\u2014Forbes<\/p>\n

Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk\u2019s unprecedented takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal\u2019s seismic political, social, and financial fallout<\/p>\n

The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a vital nexus of global politics, culture, and media\u2014where the retweet button could instantly catapult any idea to hundreds of millions of screens around the world, unleashing raw collective emotion like nothing else before. While its founder had idealistically dreamed of building a “digital town square,” he detested Wall Street and never focused on building a profitable business.<\/p>\n

Musk joined the platform in 2010 and, by 2022, had become one of the site\u2019s most influential users, hooking over 80 million followers with a mix of provocations, promotion of his companies, and attacks on his enemies. To Musk, Twitter\u2014once known for its almost absolute commitment to free speech\u2014had badly lost its way. He blamed it for the proliferation of what he called the \u201cwoke mind virus\u201d and claimed that the survival of democracy and the human race itself depended on the future of the site. In January of 2022, Musk began secretly accumulating Twitter stock. By April, he was its largest shareholder, and soon after, made an unsolicited offer to purchase the company for the unimaginable sum of $44 billion dollars. Backed into a corner, Twitter\u2019s board accepted his offer\u2014but Musk quickly changed his mind, forcing Twitter to sue him to close the deal in October. The richest man on earth controlled one of the most powerful media platforms in the world\u2014but at what price? Before long Twitter would be gone for good, replaced by something radically different, as Musk remade the company in his own image from the ground up.<\/p>\n

The story of the showdown between Musk and Twitter and his eventual takeover of the company is unlike anything in business or media that has come before. In vivid, cinematic detail, Conger and Mac follow the inner workings of the company as Musk lays siege to it, first from the outside as one of its most vocal users, and then finally from within as a contentious and mercurial leader. Musk has shared some of his version of events, but Conger and Mac have uncovered the full story through exclusive interviews, unreported documents, and internal recordings at Twitter following the billionaire\u2019s takeover. With unparalleled sources from within and around the company, they provide a revelatory, three-dimensional, and definitive account of what really happened when Musk showed up, spoiling for a brawl and intent on revolution, with his merciless, sycophantic cadre of lawyers, investors, and bankers.<\/p>\n

This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost?<\/p>\n

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