Robin Abcarian: Elon Musk's Twitter chaos came calling for me
When Elon Musk strode into Twitter's San Francisco headquarters in October, toting a bathroom sink, it did seem possible that the social media platform might soon be circling the very drain he held in his hands.
So much of the Twitter-using world was aghast at Musk's purchase of the popular but unprofitable social media platform. For weeks, the speculation raged:
He'd wreck Twitter by letting banned troublemakers like former President Donald Trump back on.
He'd charge for the infamous blue check that denotes "legitimacy," rendering it meaningless.
He'd make sure that his own tweets would top every user's timeline.
More ominously: under the immense debt load he incurred
