X Marks the Spot

Elon Musk wants to make Twitter the gateway to the “World of X”

What a story this has been… First Elon wanted to buy Twitter, but Twitter didn’t want to sell. Then Twitter wanted to sell, but Elon didn’t want to buy. Twitter sued Elon, then Elon wanted to buy, but Twitter didn’t want to sell and kept suing Elon to buy.

Well, now Elon Musk owns Twitter — he finally acquired the company for $44 billion. Immediately after, he fired the CEO and several top executives and tweeted “the bird is freed.”

Beyond firing the company’s top brass, Elon has a lot of plans for Twitter and he’s been sharing his thoughts with us through his tweets and documents leaked from the Twitter lawsuit.

He’s consistently said that he wants Twitter to be more open and has promised free speech for all — he will unban controversial accounts, including former President Trump — and to relax content moderation rules.

He’s also tweeted about stopping ads and turning Twitter into “X, the everything app.”

Compared with its rivals, Twitter is a comparatively small platform with around 300 million monthly users, that has never experienced the exponential growth for example of TikTok or Instagram. But it has a commanding role in news distribution and is considered influential — it is widely used by politicians, thought…