What Elon Musk's Twitter takeover means for the social media platform - WBUR News

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Elon Musk paid $44 cardinal for Twitter. And got much than helium bargained for.

"The marketers are Twitter's customers. Tesla has historically ne'er done immoderate marketing," Nilay Patel says. "He has nary thought however advertizing works."

Disappointed fans:

"There's conscionable a assortment of figures who are saying, We were promised escaped speech. And present you're talking to the Anti-Defamation League, and wherefore would you bash that?" Patel adds.

And an unenviable prime betwixt anonymity and transparency.

Today, On Point: What Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter means for 1 of the astir almighty societal media platforms.

Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the tech quality tract The Verge. (@reckless)

Sen. Ed Markey, U.S. legislator for Massachusetts. Chair of the Subcommittee connected Clean Air, Climate and Nuclear Safety; and the Subcommittee connected East Asia, the Pacific and International Cybersecurity Policy. (@SenMarkey)

The Verge: "Welcome to hell, Elon" — "Twitter is simply a catastrophe clown car institution that is palmy contempt itself, and determination is nary imaginable mode to turn users and gross without making a bid of tremendous compromises that volition yet destruct your estimation and perchance origin grievous harm to your different companies."