Episode description

In today's episode, Rob and Toby attempt to make sense of Elon Musk's $44Bn acquisition of Twitter. Attempt is the operative word here because only Elon musk knows why he's doing this so all Rob and Toby can do is offer some thoughts and speculation.

What we do agree on is that this isn't just a pure social crusade by any stretch and there is most likely a business model in Elon's head that he thinks can monetize Twitter.  And one of the thoughts that we offer is maybe Musk has a 2 step approach where step 1 is to steer Twitter more towards a Wikipedia type platform (and thus allow true moderation by society rather than powerful individuals) and step 2 is a subscription type model where people will pay for good (self-moderated) content.

One thing Rob and Toby can be certain about is we don't know what Elon Musk has in mind for Twitter but we think our hypothesis has got some merit. 

Are we likely to see Wiki Tweets in the not-too-distant future?  Does the application of a Wikipedia type model make sense? What do you think? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.