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After all there used to be Florida Man at fault.
A brand new book with the aid of Bloomberg reporter Kurt Wagner titled Fight for the Chicken covers the evolution of The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter because it moved from a publicly traded firm launched through co-founder Jack Dorsey to a privately-held undertaking owned by using Elon Musk.
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Bloomberg printed an excerpt from the guide, due out Feb. 20, and among the quite a lot of anecdotes about Musk’s struggles to continue “anxious” advertisers and other testimonies of his tumultuous tenure is what very neatly could also be the Chief Twit’s villain origin story.
Consistent with Wagner, in January 2022, Musk contacted then-CEO Parag Agrawal to bitch about @ElonJet, a Twitter account run by means of Jack Sweeney, a college scholar at the University of Vital Florida. Sweeney’s account used publicly available data to report on the site of Musk’s personal jet, so much to the annoyance of the sector’s richest man.
Sweeney runs more than one debts that track the personal jet trip of distinguished figures, including former President Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos — and even Taylor Swift, who recently threatened the college student with felony motion for his experiences on her flights.
Musk “unsuccessfully petitioned Agrawal to eliminate a Twitter account that was once tracking his personal aircraft,” wrote Wagner. “[T]he billionaire began buying Twitter shares shortly after Agrawal denied his request.”
Musk’s accumulation of Twitter stock led to ongoing conversations with Dorsey, and Musk searching for a spot on the company’s board of directors. When that used to be thwarted — alongside with his request to nuke @ElonJet and other ideas he made — Musk then began pursuing purchasing Twitter outright, with Dorsey’s encouragement.
Hostilities increased after Musk accomplished his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in October 2022. He quick ousted Agrawal along with a majority of the company’s executives and employees. And regardless of his boasts of constructing Twitter a free speech haven, Musk suspended the @ElonJet account — along with a couple of journalists who were sharing or reporting on @ElonJet’s monitoring information — and threatened legal action, in the end relenting after Sweeney switched to posting info after a 24-hour lengthen (Sweeney does nonetheless post shuttle data about Musk’s jet on other social media systems).
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