[mmmpop]

How do you define "public failure"? My definition would be entirely contingent upon the intentions of the new owner since it's his to do with what he pleases. If said owner is well into middle age and bored, but has more money than literally any other person...? Who am I to judge what he decides to do with it?

"It's just money" says Elon and if his goal were to be the world's most massive troll (which I suspect is a large part of it), then it's achievement accomplished, full stop.

[woodruffw]

At least to my mind, "public failure" includes but isn't limited to embarrassing outages and service degradation on one of the world's most popular social media sites, one that was more or less running smoothly immediately prior.