As Musk buyout looms, Twitter searches for its soul


It’s been a messy few weeks and only one thing seems sure: the turmoil will continue for Twitter, inside and outside of the company. — AP

SAN FRANCISCO: A toxic cesspool. A lifeline. A finger on the world’s pulse. Twitter is all these things and more to its over 229 million users around the world – politicians, journalists, activists, celebrities, weirdos and normies, cat and dog lovers and just about anyone else with an Internet connection.

For Elon Musk, its ultimate troll and perhaps most prolific user whose buyout of the company is on increasingly shaky ground, Twitter is a “de facto town square” in dire need of a libertarian makeover.

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