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by raffraffraff 980 days ago
Oh I agree. I just think that Musk upped the ante by not being a private equity firm and still outdoing them:

1. Fire most of the company

2. Introduce new charges (blue tick worked, but the API cost was just stupidly high)

3. Then start tearing into the platform, breaking shit

The 3rd bit is what's weird. Private equity don't usually want to destroy the product that they just bought. Perhaps he thought that Twitter needed to be simplified in order to be manageable with a skeleton crew, but it still doesn't explain a bunch of user-friendly changes or the lame "X" rebranding.