What is twitter without bots?

Dan Faltesek
4 min readApr 26, 2022

The most perplexing thing about Elon Musk buying Twitter are his plans for it, which seem to be organized by “free speech” as a concept. Whatever free speech means here it seems to include: verifiable names, no-bots, non-blocking, and non-censorship of his critics. The following are my questions for myself about the future of the platform, the might have some value to you, I wrote a book about this stuff, especially Twitter’s IPO. Important thing to know: this is a leveraged buyout, meaning that Musk does not have the cash, instead Twitter is functionally taking a loan to buy itself and the interest…

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Dan Faltesek

Associate Professor of Social Media, Oregon State: These are my opinions, not theirs. Read my book: Selling Social Media (Bloomsbury Academic), 2018.