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How, Exactly, Elon Musk Can Fix Twitter

Precisely because the site is so broken, it offers many opportunities for improvement.
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As you may have heard, the world’s richest man recently bought the world’s worst social-media platform. Personally, I think that one of the awesome things about having a ton of money is never having to care about Twitter and what people are saying on it, but it seems America’s billionaire class disagrees. Even Jeff Bezos can’t seem to log off.

There’s understandably been a lot of consternation over what new management would mean for Twitter itself. For my part, I subscribe to the on the takeover: “Elon Musk owning a stake in Twitter—no one can convince me that this is interesting. What’s he gonna do, ruin Twitter? How would we

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