He could’ve just shut it down at any time. I doubt he planned the destruction of his reputation. He’s gone from tech boy wonder to being widely loathed. It’s hurt his other companies as well but, more personally, it’s so obvious from his posts that he’s desperate to be loved and revered.

He just really sucks. Being surrounded by people who never criticize or challenge him unshockingly doesn’t improve things either.

I don’t think so. The man is truly stupid.

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Well, if by “destroying” you mean “turning into a haven for right wing hatespeech”, he was pretty open about that. I don’t know that he understood that connection though.

So instead of buying Twitter, not touching it for a year, and then shutting it down because it’s “not profitable” he would rather people think he’s incompetent?

Either he’s an idiot man-child who shouldn’t be allowed to be put in charge of anything, or he wants people to think he’s an idiot man-child who shouldn’t be allowed to be put in charge of anything. Either way I’m happy to oblige.

There were screenshots at the article in the link.