{"id":9645,"date":"2023-04-15T15:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T13:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/elon-musk-hates-journalists-but-journalists-love-twitter-where-does-that-leave-us-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T15:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T13:37:22","slug":"elon-musk-hates-journalists-but-journalists-love-twitter-where-does-that-leave-us-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/elon-musk-hates-journalists-but-journalists-love-twitter-where-does-that-leave-us-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk hates journalists but journalists love Twitter. Where does that leave us? | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The billionaire\u2019s hamfisted handling of his new toy won\u2019t much matter as long as politicians and media types remain bewitched<\/p>\n

Last October, the richest manchild in human history fell into the trap he had dug for himself. Elon Musk was forced to purchase Twitter at an absurd price. He had no clear idea of what to do with his new acquisition, other than realising a fatuous idea about \u201cfree speech\u201d. It was like watching a monkey acquire a delicate clock: the new owner started thrashing wildly about, slashing the headcount (from 8,000 to about 1,500) \u2013 in the process losing many of the people who knew how the machine worked \u2013 and generally having tantrums while tweeting incontinently from the smallest room<\/a> in the company\u2019s San Francisco headquarters.<\/p>\n

All of this frenetic activity was watched \u2013 and avidly reported for weeks \u2013 by the world\u2019s mainstream media, for reasons that would have puzzled a visiting Martian anthropologist. After all, in relation to the other social-media companies, Twitter looked like a minnow. Most people have never used it. So why all the fuss about its acquisition by a flake of Cadbury proportions?<\/p>\n

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\nThe billionaire\u2019s hamfisted handling of his new toy won\u2019t much matter as long as politicians and media types remain bewitched
\nLast October, the richest manchild in human history fell into the trap he had dug for himself. Elon Musk was forced to purchase Twitter at an absurd price. He had no clear idea of what to do with his new acquisition, other than realising a fatuous idea about \u201cfree speech\u201d. It was like watching a monkey acquire a delicate clock: the new owner started thrashing wildly about, slashing the headcount (from 8,000 to about 1,500) \u2013 in the process losing many of the people who knew how the machine worked \u2013 and generally having tantrums while tweeting incontinently from the smallest room in the company\u2019s San Francisco headquarters.
\nAll of this frenetic activity was watched \u2013 and avidly reported for weeks \u2013 by the world\u2019s mainstream media, for reasons that would have puzzled a visiting Martian anthropologist. After all, in relation to the other social-media companies, Twitter looked like a minnow. Most people have never used it. So why all the fuss about its acquisition by a flake of Cadbury proportions? Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The billionaire\u2019s hamfisted handling of his new toy won\u2019t much matter as long as politicians and media types remain bewitched Last October, the richest manchild in human history fell into the trap he had dug for himself. Elon Musk was forced to purchase Twitter at an absurd price. He had no clear idea of what …<\/p>\n

Elon Musk hates journalists but journalists love Twitter. Where does that leave us? | John Naughton<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9646,"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\/9645"}],"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=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}