The Twitter saga begins

Week 1 of Elon owning Twitter has proven to be more entertaining than we ever expected. Here’s my notes on the happenings about Twitter that I found just casually strolling Twitter:

  • Two trolls name Rahul Ligma and Dan Johnson trick a bunch of reporters outside Twitter HQ into thinking they were laid off. The internet goes crazy.

  • Elon brings over some of his top Tesla engineers to review Twitter’s code and manage the teams

  • Engineers were instructed to print their code that they have written over the last 30-60 days, then instructed to stop printing and shred the documents

  • Elon has brought over friends Jason Calacanis and David Craft as temporary executives to help manage the company

  • Elon debates charging people to use Twitter to make it the internet’s town square and champion of free speech

  • Elon is currently soliciting feedback from Twitter users and then trolling them about how they can provide their input but that they’ll need to pay $8 for it

It’s hard to doubt Elon Musk at this point after building PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX. All that said, holy shit I have no clue where Twitter is headed but it’s not looking great.

I love Twitter… I find it much more intellectual than scrolling Instagram. I don’t use TikTok as I refuse to add another addicting app on my phone - my sleep has suffered enough. Twitter is where I go to get ideas from others and it’s an amazing source of education.

For the sake of saving Twitter, I hope Elon succeeds. I have to give him the benefit of the doubt at this point, but things are not off to a great start.

I saw that Titan Vest was providing an opportunity to invest in private Twitter through one of the ARK Invest funds. 17 vigs/fees aside - I will not be investing in Twitter. In a year or two, I hope that I regret not investing.