Elon Musk thought he was screwing Mark Zuckerberg by buying Twitter
Vanity Fair published an excerpt from Kate Conger and Ryan Mac’s new book about Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, Character Limit, and it’s great. Go read it all.
One part that stood out to us? Some of the first words out of the billionaire’s mouth after the $44 billion deal — which Musk had been trying to get out of for months — finally went through: “Fuck Zuck!”
That’s right: No big ideas about the future of the internet’s town square, no tirade about free speech. Just one billionaire in a pissing contest with another.
Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the head of some other social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, have a long-running beef about mostly nothing. They disagree about whether AI is scary. They throw shade at each other’s businesses. They keep negging each other into a physical cage match that’s failed to materialize.
And in life’s greatest moments of ecstasy, they think about each other.
That’s right: No big ideas about the future of the internet’s town square, no tirade about free speech. Just one billionaire in a pissing contest with another.
Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the head of some other social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, have a long-running beef about mostly nothing. They disagree about whether AI is scary. They throw shade at each other’s businesses. They keep negging each other into a physical cage match that’s failed to materialize.
And in life’s greatest moments of ecstasy, they think about each other.
