Twitter’s board had previously said they wouldn’t sell, “I guess they found that edit button after all,” Noah quipped.
“This is actually a historic moment: this is the first time anyone at Twitter has changed their mind about anything,” he added.
Noah wondered why Musk would want to own Twitter, as “it just doesn’t seem like a fun place to supervise right now. It’s like buying Jurassic Park after the power went down and the cages were opened.”
But “by buying Twitter, Elon Musk gets to own one of the most culturally influential publishing platforms in the world”, he explained.
“I mean remember this, think about it. Twitter is how the Arab spring took off, right? Black Lives Matter blew up on Twitter. The #MeToo movement started on Twitter. Trump used Twitter to turn himself from a reality show joke into the 45th president of the United States and a joke.
So owning Twitter gives you more power than the dru store employee with the key to the deodorant shelf.”
Whether you’re into Elon Musk or not, “you’ve gotta admit, it’s pretty crazy that one man is now in control in all of that,” Noah concluded. As a private company “everything that happens on Twitter from now on is up to him. And also whatever strain his weed guy gives him that day.
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