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Musk is getting attention because unlike many people who take over a company he doesn’t seem to have a good plan for what to do, or rather he had plans (charging for the verified tick etc.) which people told him would backfire, and they did so he has had to reverse them with extraordinary speed.

So now he needs to work out what to do with a vastly reduced engineering team, and loss in confidence from some advertisers because of the fall out from his first plan, and his communication style isn’t really helping him through all this.

Whether Twitter is a good thing overall I can’t say. It has many interesting groups of people on it in both my professional life and in my hobbies outside of that, and if it goes down I think it will be the first time we’ve seen a social network fail while still large and active.