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Is Elon Musk Going to Destroy Twitter? Or Save It?
Musk’s critics are in a tailspin; his fans are ecstatic. Who’s right?
“I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness,” tweeted the former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey on April 25 at 9:41 PM.
Lately, Jack Dorsey has been a bit cagey; first saying too little, then saying too much, then refusing to elaborate, This particular tweet was accompanied by a song: Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place”.
This time, it seemed, Dorsey would not leave his followers guessing as to his thoughts on the future of Twitter.
“The idea and service is all that matters to me, and I will do whatever it takes to protect both,” Dorsey commented on his original post. “Twitter as a company has always been my sole issue and my biggest regret. It has been owned by Wall Street and the ad model. Taking it back from Wall Street is the correct first step.”
“In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter,” Dorsey continued on the thread. “It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.”