Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

Written by Ben Mezrich

Narrated by Will Collyer

From New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich: the book Elon Musk doesn’t want you to read. 

Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time—Elon Musk—and the company that represents our culture’s dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the mission-driven team Musk surrounded himself with, this is the full story from all sides. Can Musk miraculously succeed or will he spectacularly fail?  What will that mean to the global town hall that is Twitter? What, really, is Elon’s end goal? The whole world is watching.  

Breaking Twitter will provide ringside seats.  Elon Musk didn't break Twitter. Twitter broke Elon Musk.  

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hachette Audio
• Release date: Nov 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9781549139482

Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. He has sold over ten million copies of his twenty-four published books, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted into the Academy Award–winning film The Social Network, and Bringing Down the House, which was the basis for the hit movie 21. His current bestseller The Antisocial Network is being adapted into the feature film Dumb Money. Ben has written and produced for the hit TV show Billions on Showtime, and he travels the world speaking to audiences of all ages about writing books and the adventures he has experienced from each of his stories. He lives in Boston with his wife, two kids, and two pugs. 

Reviews for Breaking Twitter

[froxgirl · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This "historical fiction" of Musk's takeover and subsequent ruination of Twitter focuses on the events of Nov 2022 - April 2023, as recounted by a few "Tweeps", now fired, and also the author’s imagination. Somehow, despite his alleged "genius", Musk emerges as a petty, thin-skinned dictator who suffered through a miserable childhood and who surrounds himself with yes-men who cater to his inflated ego and rabid need to be liked. Sound familiar? He has no patience for details nor warnings of disaster, and so blunders into losing essential employees and the advertisers who kept the site funded. The book seems hurried and shallow, spiced up with a few juicy stories - sounds like Twitter, doesn't it? Maybe worth a read for the very curious about the how the weaknesses of the world's wealthiest man caused social media's biggest disaster.

[kavinay-677830 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Musk playing "Brewster's Millions" isn't much more complicated from the inside than it appeared from the outside. Good call avoiding SBF's crypto buy-in though!