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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

‘Musk destroyed all that’: Twitter’s business is flailing after a year of Elon

An effigy of Elon Musk is seen on a mobile device with the X and Twitter logos in the background in this photo illustration on 23 July 2023 in Warsaw, Poland.
Shortly before completing the $44bn (£36bn) takeover, Elon Musk described the deal as an ‘accelerant to creating X, the everything app’. Photograph: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Elon Musk wrote within hours of buying Twitter that he “didn’t do it because it would be easy”.

That statement has proven to be one of the few certainties about his ownership of the influential social media platform, which has tipped the business into a state of constant flux, with advertisers slashing spending, user numbers down, regulators circling and the staff at less than 50% of what it used to be.

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