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Brilliant, incisive, and humorous. I’ve rarely witnessed a financial transaction where the range of outcomes is between zero and Musk’s estimate of, say, $500 billion. Is Twitter a passing fad or an essential public forum? We will know the answer in less than two years. Entrenched services and technologies rarely stand the test of time in today’s world, so my guess is that either Musk reinvents Twitter into something new and different (the “X app”), or it dies slowly, then suddenly, (witness Polaroid, Kodak, CBS Evening News, Internet Explorer, GoPro, Robinhood, and Peleton, just to name a few). With his success with Tesla, SoaceX and Boring Company,, you would have though he would have had enough on his plate. Indeed, to cite a WWII analogy, Twitter may be “A Bridge Too Far.”

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