Elon Musk is a "free speech zealot." He's talked about building a platform but now it seems he wants to buy one instead. Twitter is his target. It's been an extraordinary couple of weeks in the Musk/Twitter okey-cokey. Many questions remain unanswered.
Musk Has Twitter In His Sights
Playground: The world's richest man-child, Elon Musk, has Twitter in his sights. And he wants to buy if for $39 billion!
Last week, as news broke that Musk had been secretly buying up Twitter stock, I wrote this article. A week ago the focus was on 2 things;
- would the SEC and disgruntled shareholders go after Musk for blatantly ignoring the securities and trading rules?
- And, would Musk be the kick-up-the-backside that Twitter needs to fix its broken business model and realise the potential of its global brand?