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Elon and Twitter: A love/hate story

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Isa Mimis Circle of Life via Twitter?

Twitter is an unbelievably important contributor to news discourse, perhaps one of the most important products in the informational landscape that we have. But it's also an awful business. The company has lost a cumulative 861 million dollars in its lifetime as a public company. Twitter churns out meams and those meams change culture,. Those meams drive the world., but that doesn't make them very good businesses. So i'm very curious to know, and i haven't really heard a great answer to the question of what exactly would on due to, you know, acquire this company for forty three billion then turn it into his own private neam factory.

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