Are You Sitting Round Me Let Go Ofhead?

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i would have been much happier if twitter had just stayed the it was. i think there's a fallacy, that's a common fallacy with people like Mark Zukeberg which is you can transfer competence across these kinds of domains. But this isn't about physics. It's about soc sociology. That's a totally different bal game with way different dynamics. I don't even know if if muss knows what he's buying here, really, but i think we'll all find out very quickly.

Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter? What does he plan to do with it? Is this the end of big social or a chance to reinvent it? This week, we’re interrupting our regularly scheduled programming to answer those questions with two of the smartest internet commentators we know: Eli Pariser, co-founder of Upworthy and author of “The Filter Bubble”; and Steven Johnson, writer, podcaster, and TV host.

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