{"id":11641,"date":"2023-09-23T06:37:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T04:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/23\/what-makes-elon-musk-tick-i-spent-months-following-the-same-people-as-him-to-find-out-who-fuels-his-curious-worldview\/"},"modified":"2023-09-23T06:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T04:37:55","slug":"what-makes-elon-musk-tick-i-spent-months-following-the-same-people-as-him-to-find-out-who-fuels-his-curious-worldview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/23\/what-makes-elon-musk-tick-i-spent-months-following-the-same-people-as-him-to-find-out-who-fuels-his-curious-worldview\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes Elon Musk tick? I spent months following the same people as him to find out who fuels his curious worldview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tucker Carlson, Greta Thunberg, Covid sceptics, military historians, the royal family \u2026 What would my time immersed in the Twitter\/X owner\u2019s feed reveal about the richest man in the world?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s it like to be<\/em> Elon Musk? On almost every level it is impossible to imagine \u2013 he\u2019s just too much. Musk is the hands-on head of three mega-companies, one (Tesla) wildly successful, one (SpaceX) madly aspirational, one (Twitter\/X) a shambles. He has plenty of other businesses on the side, including The Boring Company (which makes hi-tech tunnels), Neuralink (which makes brain-computer interfaces), and his current pet favourite xAI (mission: \u201cTo understand the true nature of the universe\u201d). He is the on-again, off-again richest human being on the planet, his personal net worth sometimes fluctuating by more than $10bn a day as the highly volatile Tesla share price lurches up and down. He is the father of 11 children \u2013 one of whom died as an infant, and from one of whom he is currently estranged \u2013 with three different women, which to his own mind at least seems to make him some kind of family man. He has 155 million followers on Twitter\/X (we\u2019ll call it Twitter from now on for simplicity\u2019s sake), which is more than anyone else. Only a very few people \u2013 Barack Obama (132 million), Justin Bieber (111 million) \u2013 can have any idea of what that is like.<\/p>\n

However, unlike Obama, who follows 550,000 accounts on Twitter, Musk follows only 415. That<\/em> anyone can copy (or at least they could, before the platform recently changed its code so you can now only see a small handful of users\u2019 followers rather than the full list). So that\u2019s what I did, spending this past summer following the exact same accounts Musk follows and no one else, to see what the world looks like from inside his personal Twitter bubble. I wanted to be a fly on the wall in the room with the people who are shaping the thoughts of one of the most influential, and unpredictable, individuals on the planet. I should add that I\u2019ve never followed anyone else on Twitter before \u2013 I\u2019ve never even had a Twitter account \u2013 so it was all new to me. What can I say? It\u2019s pretty mind-blowing.<\/p>\n

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\nTucker Carlson, Greta Thunberg, Covid sceptics, military historians, the royal family \u2026 What would my time immersed in the Twitter\/X owner\u2019s feed reveal about the richest man in the world?
\nWhat\u2019s it like to be Elon Musk? On almost every level it is impossible to imagine \u2013 he\u2019s just too much. Musk is the hands-on head of three mega-companies, one (Tesla) wildly successful, one (SpaceX) madly aspirational, one (Twitter\/X) a shambles. He has plenty of other businesses on the side, including The Boring Company (which makes hi-tech tunnels), Neuralink (which makes brain-computer interfaces), and his current pet favourite xAI (mission: \u201cTo understand the true nature of the universe\u201d). He is the on-again, off-again richest human being on the planet, his personal net worth sometimes fluctuating by more than $10bn a day as the highly volatile Tesla share price lurches up and down. He is the father of 11 children \u2013 one of whom died as an infant, and from one of whom he is currently estranged \u2013 with three different women, which to his own mind at least seems to make him some kind of family man. He has 155 million followers on Twitter\/X (we\u2019ll call it Twitter from now on for simplicity\u2019s sake), which is more than anyone else. Only a very few people \u2013 Barack Obama (132 million), Justin Bieber (111 million) \u2013 can have any idea of what that is like.
\nHowever, unlike Obama, who follows 550,000 accounts on Twitter, Musk follows only 415. That anyone can copy (or at least they could, before the platform recently changed its code so you can now only see a small handful of users\u2019 followers rather than the full list). So that\u2019s what I did, spending this past summer following the exact same accounts Musk follows and no one else, to see what the world looks like from inside his personal Twitter bubble. I wanted to be a fly on the wall in the room with the people who are shaping the thoughts of one of the most influential, and unpredictable, individuals on the planet. I should add that I\u2019ve never followed anyone else on Twitter before \u2013 I\u2019ve never even had a Twitter account \u2013 so it was all new to me. What can I say? It\u2019s pretty mind-blowing. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tucker Carlson, Greta Thunberg, Covid sceptics, military historians, the royal family \u2026 What would my time immersed in the Twitter\/X owner\u2019s feed reveal about the richest man in the world? What\u2019s it like to be Elon Musk? On almost every level it is impossible to imagine \u2013 he\u2019s just too much. Musk is the hands-on …<\/p>\n

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