The takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk, it is his tweets that speak of it best – Liberation

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–The multi-billionaire, who paid $44 billion to acquire the social network created in 2006, must now clarify his intentions and his project, well beyond the display of his anger and his all-out crushes.–

“I use my tweets to express my personality. Some people do it with their hair. I use Twitter,” confessed in 2018 Elon Musk, the day after a costly lawsuit lost against the American financial authorities. He was accused of having unduly influenced the markets by his untimely tweets on the hypothesis of withdrawing his Tesla empire from the stock exchange listing. The confession took on a new flavor on Monday when the same Musk, who nevertheless has a lot of hair, finalized the total acquisition of Twitter in exchange for some 44 billion dollars (41 billion euros).

A sum, even for the richest-man-in-the-world (his fortune is estimated at 247 billion euros), and above all to afford a digital actor certainly crowned with an influence on the political spheres – almost unparalleled media, but whose economic potential (valued by Wall Street well below the price paid on Monday) has never been realized in the proportions that many investors before Musk dreamed of, in sixteen years of existence.

What for then, exactly? The declarations of intentions disseminated from interviews to press releases sweep away the hypothesis of making it a cash machine, to swear instead to accord the principles of the social network to an imperative of transparency (by making the complex in-house algorithm public) and especially from this “absolute freedom” so dear to the boss…

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