Marginal Advice
Marginal Advice
Jordan M, Alex G
So How Did Twitter Get Here? The Elon Musk Takeover Timeline | Marginal Advice Podcast Ep. 5
1 hour 4 minutes Posted Nov 14, 2022 at 5:23 am.
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You may have seen Chiquita Banana invade a sovereign state, Teslas go exothermic, and an $8 investment result in $15 billion in pharmeceutical losses this past week. How did we get to these Tweets?

Events spanning the whole of 2022 have led us to this Twitter Blue climax of entertainment we see today. We go through the various steps in Musk's acquisition — purposeful or accidental — from buying up shares to carrying a sink through the front doors. Texts between Musk and the Twitter CEO, abandoned lawsuits, bots (eggs), lead to Tumblr's Important Checks, Developer versions of Twitter running publicly, a thousand Elon Musks. It's a slingshot of entertainment, and we're here to ride it with ya.