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Writers would be better off if Twitter went bust tomorrow

Writers would be better off if Twitter went bust tomorrow

Why we should leave Elon Musk's vanity project (and why we probably won't)

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Nick Cohen
Dec 28, 2022
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On the reliable grounds that you should not believe anything until it is officially denied, Elon Musk’s statement before Christmas that Twitter is “not on the fast lane to bankruptcy” means it could soon be bust.

By any normal business measure, it already is. Musk offered to buy Twitter at the top of the Covid-generated tech bubble for $44bn (a price so …

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