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Elon for the ride: How has Musk's Twitter dream fallen apart?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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It's been six months since Elon Musk took over Twitter. Frequent users will tell you that functionality of the site has gone down the toilet. But Musk insists that every change he's made, and charging for blue check marks to amplifying the visibility of his own tweets, has made the platform better. So how is it really going for Twitter? Was it $44 billion while spent? And where to next for the site that, like it or loathe it, is a vital source for global news, political communications and cute pictures of cats. With me to unpack this is Luke Bailey, head of digital at the iPaper and former editor at BuzzFeed UK.

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