What Does Elon Musk Actually Want To Do With Twitter?

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10. Musk is attuned to "It" issues

Issues that are hot in certain niche communities but on which the larger business community are still behind the curve.

Online payment processing
Electric cars/green energy
The need for a private Boeing-style replacement for our largely-federalized rocketry industry
Etc.

He's doing the same thing with Twitter, except instead of taking his cues from the IT or rocketry or sustainable energy communities, he's taking them from the red-pilled right who have built a grievance religion around their loss of "free speech" on mainstream social media.

There's no real indication that, aside from "defeating the spambots" and removing most content moderation, he has any particular vision for Twitter... which is why Tesla stock is taking a plunge. There's a lot of people looking at how much he spent -- and how fast the Twitter board were willing to accept once they knew he was serious -- and wondering where the deep innovation that will pay for this deal is going to come from.

The whole thing feels like an impulsive vanity project.