What Happens Once Elon Musk Buys Twitter?

Also, who cares?

At first I was interested in the story about Elon Musk buying Twitter, but then it got too confusing.

“He wants to spend $44 billion!”
“They’re trying to stop him from buying the company!”
“Now he’s trolling them!”
“Now they’re trolling each other!”
“He’s backing out!”
“They’re trying to stop him from doing that now!”
“Either way, free speech is dead because people we don’t like might be able to disagree with us again!”

The sky is always falling but it never seems to land. As it turns out, the Twitter logo is Chicken Little.

But now it looks like they’re doing the dang thing after all. It’s actually happening. I think?

Bloomberg @business

NEW: Elon Musk confirmed his plan to proceed with his $44 billion purchase of Twitter. Read Musk's letter to Twitter trib.al/bzkyQ66

Twitter Investor Relations @TwitterIR

Twitter issued this statement about today's news: We received the letter from the Musk parties which they have filed with the SEC. The intention of the Company is to close the transaction at $54.20 per share.

So, what happens now?

I’m not asking because I have any idea. Lots of people have very strong feelings about it, but that’s all they are: feelings. I assume some Twitter employees will walk out in protest. Most of the journos will have very public meltdowns, on the very platform they claim has been destroyed. It will be the end of the world, again. They still blame social media for Hillary Clinton losing in 2016, and there’s nothing they fear more than somebody daring to disagree with them in public.

And then…