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To tweet or not to tweet, now that Elon’s the boss

To tweet or not to tweet, now that Elon’s the boss

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Virginia Heffernan
Oct 29, 2022
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My plan was to dither. I find that if I plan to dither, the chances are high I’ll follow through.

This week, while the World’s Richest Man, Elon Musk, now Twitter’s owner and overlord, was lying in wait to seize the company, the question before a noisy swath of the platform’s 400 million users had become: Should I stay or should I go?

That’s where the dit…

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