If I may… and I am neither the OP nor a mod… I may suggest that posts regarding the political implications of this buyout be focused on this thread here:
While this thread be dedicated to the business aspects and the impact on Twitter itself.
Just a suggestion.
Anyway, to this topic, the following is being reported:
Of all the things Elon could have done to kill his site, this is one of them. Twitter is a website which, somehow-someway-somewhen got people as diverse as Stephen King, Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, and more to generate… FOR FREE… tons of content, words, images, videos, words, and entertainment.
AND NOW YOU’RE GOING TO CHARGE STEPHEN F-IN’ KING TO WRITE FOR YOUR WEBSITE? AND YOU THINK HE’S GOING TO PAY???
Jesus wept.