{"id":5279,"date":"2022-04-06T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/techscape-what-does-elon-musk-want-with-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:37:27","slug":"techscape-what-does-elon-musk-want-with-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/techscape-what-does-elon-musk-want-with-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"TechScape: What does Elon Musk want with Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: the world\u2019s richest man just bought 9.2% of the social media site promising \u201csignificant improvements\u201d \u2013 here\u2019s what that could mean <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ablink.editorial.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFo11SPMvm9ONAti2JcHBqUgcduObToxycReEYHcTAh6nov_u_7l464yKkl5CZpPeg-CqG3ueb-8UiDZ4dOkhK_xu6BZysaGtGOA-w2_0KTqLsMBLqZrcGelEg-7T5C6DRfMSsX1Wcyrv2RlHjbzIGx0ePxMD7meIXmznkqCFxtrflV_YvxDV9cqXgzdq7c2-9qYTW0MyIMCG7p9sc7wIKCg\/3ha\/N7031ZxvS8Cv2AmB8PHP-g\/h27\/towm4HqYM1UtQe3kzAkaoAWT_zh9HyZuTvPyJCk6JeE\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIf you can\u2019t beat them, join them\u201d is loser talk. If you can\u2019t beat them, buy 10% of them, and then they\u2019re the ones who have to beat <em>you<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That, at least, seems to have been Elon Musk\u2019s conclusion, after he ended a month of whining about the social network, <em>on<\/em> the social network, with a $2.9bn purchase of 9.2% of the social network.<\/p>\n<p><em>Elon Musk<\/em><em> has built up a 9.2% stake in <\/em><em>Twitter<\/em><em>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net\/CIK-0001418091\/f66f56c1-eb52-43f8-a7ff-992dc80a7396.pdf\">filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter<\/em><em> shares jumped 26% in <\/em><em>pre-<\/em><em>market trading on the back of the news that the world\u2019s richest person holds shares worth almost $3bn in the micro-<\/em><em>blogging<\/em><em> platform.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/06\/techscape-elon-musk-twitter-stake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8b15629539f4dd5b4e42817f9ade311001fa5213\/0_109_3142_1885\/master\/3142.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9462dc9ea437cfbca42b09ed8be1c889\" title=\"TechScape: What does Elon Musk want with Twitter?\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: the world\u2019s richest man just bought 9.2% of the social media site promising \u201csignificant improvements\u201d \u2013 here\u2019s what that could mean<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<br \/>\n\u201cIf you can\u2019t beat them, join them\u201d is loser talk. If you can\u2019t beat them, buy 10% of them, and then they\u2019re the ones who have to beat you.<br \/>\nThat, at least, seems to have been Elon Musk\u2019s conclusion, after he ended a month of whining about the social network, on the social network, with a $2.9bn purchase of 9.2% of the social network.<br \/>\nElon Musk has built up a 9.2% stake in Twitter, according to filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday.<br \/>\nTwitter shares jumped 26% in pre-market trading on the back of the news that the world\u2019s richest person holds shares worth almost $3bn in the micro-blogging platform. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: the world\u2019s richest man just bought 9.2% of the social media site promising \u201csignificant improvements\u201d \u2013 here\u2019s what that could mean Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here \u201cIf you can\u2019t beat them, join them\u201d is loser talk. If you can\u2019t beat them, buy &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/techscape-what-does-elon-musk-want-with-twitter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TechScape: What does Elon Musk want with Twitter?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}