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Why Elon Musk’s first week as Twitter owner has users flocking elsewhere
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Why Elon Musk’s first week as Twitter owner has users flocking elsewhere

[ad_1] It's been a week since Elon Musk strode into the Twitter headquarters with a kitchen sink, signalling his official takeover of the company.Having had some time to let the news of his US$44 billion (about A$70 billion) purchase “sink in”, Twitter users are now wondering what he'll do with the platform. What's Musk going to do with Twitter?After months of trying to walk away from his commitment to buy the platform, and just before entering what was looking to be a long, potentially embarrassing and costly court battle to enforce his original agreement, Twitter is now privately owned. If we wade through some of the early reactionary media punditry, we see Musk has paid far too much for a platform that has not yet fulfilled its business potential to investors, nor its social potenti...