[gregjor]

How is it relevant as a technical story? It's more about money and ego. Mergers and acquisitions in the tech industry matter to some degree to those of us working in the field, but just because it involves Elon Musk doesn't make it headline news. I can't think of anything tech-related that will change if Musk buys Twitter, or doesn't, nor do I care how much he pays for it, or how he gets the money, or what changes he says he'll make. I don't use Twitter and I don't think of it as a tech platform.

[jfoster]

Subtract Elon Musk from the story. Would Twitter becoming a private company any other way be a front-page worthy story?

At $54.2 billion, it's even newsworthy just through the sheer size of the transaction. I'm not sure, but might it be the highest valued company to ever go from public to private?

[gregjor]

Sure, it’s news, but more business news than tech news. Twitter isn’t doing any groundbreaking tech work. Worth noting but hardly front page or needing dozens of dup posts just because it has to do with Musk.