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[โ€“] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I can't find the exact quote right now, but I saw in another article he said something like, "If they don't pay for advertisements, X will be gone. How sad!"

It seems Musk thinks he's tending another Mona Lisa or some other world cultural artifact that society would hate to lose. Not some website that's fairly easily recreated by, say, a bunch of hobbyists.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

nooo don't kill twitter it's too sexy aha