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For anyone worried about Elon Musk buying Twitter, a couple of things to put it in perspective:

Article in The Verge: Welcome to hell, Elon
You break it, you buy it.

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Thread saying a lot of the same things:

Now that block bot has had time to do its thing, here's a dispassionate look at the Twitter deal.

The purchase price was north of $44b. That amount was raised w/a combination of $12.5b in financing, $21b in equity, & the remainder from a loan secured against his Tesla stock.

— Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) October 29, 2022

In short, you don't need to flee just yet. Dear Mr Musk might just have bought himself Pandora's box...