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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern

TechScape: What does Elon Musk want with Twitter?

Passive aggressive: Tesla CEO Elon Musk days before acquiring a 9.2% stake in Twitter
Passive aggressive: Tesla CEO Elon Musk days before acquiring a 9.2% stake in Twitter Photograph: Reuters

“If you can’t beat them, join them” is loser talk. If you can’t beat them, buy 10% of them, and then they’re the ones who have to beat you.

That, at least, seems to have been Elon Musk’s conclusion, after he ended a month of whining about the social network, on the social network, with a $2.9bn purchase of 9.2% of the social network.

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