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X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story, Elon Musk versus Twitter, 2. The Town Square of the Internet

X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

Elon Musk versus Twitter

2. The Town Square of the Internet

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October 25, 2022

23 minutes

Available for over a year

In just 16 years, Twitter has become the “town square of the internet”; it’s the centre of all the most important cultural conversations. But is it really worth the 44 billion dollars that Elon Musk offered to buy it for?

In this episode of Elon Musk Vs Twitter, Bec Hill dives deep into Twitter’s history and talks to tech journalists about its cultural impact to uncover how it became one of the most powerful social networks of our time. She speaks to the comedian Rosie Holt about trolls, going viral and what keeps us scrolling through the chaos, then finds out what happened when Elon Musk decided to buy a stake in Twitter.

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