Character Limit

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780593656136 Author(s): Kate Conger Format: Hardcover Year: 2024 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Pages: 480

Description: Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus ReviewsA?Riveting . . . Character Limit offers a telling lesson in the cost of getting everything you want.A?A‚ A?The Washington PostA?You couldnA?t hope for a better ringside seat on the unfolding drama . . . [Character Limit] is a triumph.A?A‚ A?The GuardianA‚ A?Masterful in how it paints a picture and puts you in the room with the famous entrepreneur . . . Character Limit is a page turner.A?A‚ A?ForbesRising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon MuskA?s unprecedented takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar dealA?s seismic political, social, and financial falloutThe billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a vital nexus of global politics, culture, and mediaA?where the retweet button could instantly catapult any idea to hundreds of millions of screens around the world, unleashing raw collective emotion like nothing else before. While its founder had idealistically dreamed of building a 'digital town square,' he detested Wall Street and never focused on building a profitable business.Musk joined the platform in 2010 and, by 2022, had become one of the siteA?s most influential users, hooking over 80 million followers with a mix of provocations, promotion of his companies, and attacks on his enemies. To Musk, Twitter A? once known for its almost absolute commitment to free speech A? had badly lost its way. He blamed it for the proliferation of what he called the A?woke mind virusA? and claimed that the survival of democracy and the human race itself depended on the future of the site. In January of 20