When you're the wealthiest person in the world you don't have to accept insults from anyone. Twitter offered Musk a seat on its board. But six days later, CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted that Musk "would not be joining the board after all" [1]. Musk's bid to buy the company quickly followed. And CEO Parag Agrawal has been fired. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/26/elon-musk...
I suppose the big question is whether this makes Twitter more or less attractive to the audience at large. Social media is extremely fickle and driven by mass migrations. All it takes is a few key players moving and the house of cards collapses. I think Facebook is a textbook example, having once been the cool alternative to MySpace, which was the cool alternative to web 1.0 and Friendster, etc.
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#11Twitter is funny imo because it started as the microblogging service nobody wanted or understood ("nobody cares what you had for breakfast") but somehow got media traction to become an often quoted source for stuff. My perception was the chicken came before the egg, ie media pushed Twitter as a source when it was still irrelevant, and as a consequence it became relevant. So if it loses that media support, it's not immediately clear to me if it will become self sustaining because of its user base. Maybe. Or maybe they will go wherever mainstream media gives the most attention.