Something that people often miss is that the big 5 tech companies (FB, Google, Amazon, msft, Apple) have an extremely enviable position in not just the tech world, but the entire economy as a whole. Tons of rich people, of all stripes (not just equity billionaires like Musk) all want to join their ranks in some way or another.
Musk is one of the few people who actually can (at least, something more than getting hired as an executive). Musk has deep natsec government contracts via Spacex, AI from OpenAI, and user data and big industry from Tesla (which is also the world’s biggest robotics company, which spices things up a little). Taking control of twitter to some sufficient extent would always have been difficult, since the platform might be dominated by murky botnets and unknown hackers due to the company’s alleged failure to develop the same sort of cyber-sovereignty that the big 5 tech companies probably have.
So it’s not about what Twitter is. It’s about what Twitter’s not, and what it could be.
Something that people often miss is that the big 5 tech companies (FB, Google, Amazon, msft, Apple) have an extremely enviable position in not just the tech world, but the entire economy as a whole. Tons of rich people, of all stripes (not just equity billionaires like Musk) all want to join their ranks in some way or another.
Musk is one of the few people who actually can (at least, something more than getting hired as an executive). Musk has deep natsec government contracts via Spacex, AI from OpenAI, and user data and big industry from Tesla (which is also the world’s biggest robotics company, which spices things up a little). Taking control of twitter to some sufficient extent would always have been difficult, since the platform might be dominated by murky botnets and unknown hackers due to the company’s alleged failure to develop the same sort of cyber-sovereignty that the big 5 tech companies probably have.
So it’s not about what Twitter is. It’s about what Twitter’s not, and what it could be.