/ 28 October 2022

A new Twit in charge

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has strolled into Twitter’s Californian HQ carrying… a sink. Yep, that’s right… Ahead of today’s court-ordered deadline to complete the US$44 billion acquisition of the social platform, he’s tweeted a video of himself with the heavy bathroom item “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!”. He’s also changed his Twitter bio to read ‘Chief Twit’… Musk changed his mind a couple of times about acquiring the platform, but he now says he’s doing it “to try to help humanity, whom I love.” And while he’s all for discussion and debate, he says “Twitter cannot become a free-for-all hellscape where anything can be said with no consequences!” Meta (aka Facebook’s owner) also hit some corporate turbulence yesterday with its share price dropping 19% after a disappointing earnings report was released yesterday. That’s down to declining advertising revenue and founder Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual reality pet project made billion-dollar losses.

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