What is twitter without bots?
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…