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Elon Musk Should Run, Not Walk, Away From Twitter
Twitter’s only asset is its greatest weakness: People.
Elon Musk loves Twitter.
There can be no mistaking the signs of true love: Musk’s fierce fight to acquire Twitter, his subsequent attempts to deny his feelings, followed by a legal union and a very short honeymoon.
Elon Musk professed his love for and admiration of Twitter from afar for many years before saving up enough money to finally buy his dream company. For his true love, Musk was willing to withstand the wrath of the left and all the forces of cancel culture.
Apart from the online chorus of progressive voices condemning Elon Musk for presuming to purchase Twitter, he must also have had a veritable army of financial advisors, attorneys, consultants, and business managers in his other ear who were also begging him not to do it.
Musk didn’t care what anyone thought.
In the end, he didn’t even appear to care about the number of bots polluting the platform. At least, not too much. Elon Musk was convinced, like any lovelorn admirer, that together he and Twitter could make things work somehow, fix the broken parts, prove their parents and everyone else wrong, and live happily ever after.