He very obviously did not want to buy Twitter; he tried for months to get out of it but because of stupid things he had publicly said, if he had failed to go through with it, he might have been up on criminal market manipulation charges. He was forced to purchase it by legal action from Twitter after he said the stupid things.

I think that's it. His vision is to try and make a WeChat competitor. As much as I hate it, I fear that if he can string along the investors for long enough he could actually maybe make it successful if he adds everything else to it.

But the Fediverse is growing too which is better. Let Musk and Zuck have their dick measuring competition and let's build something better over here!

Huh???

Elon bought Twitter by accident, he's stuck with it. Chances are he's either playing with it until it implodes, or he's turning it into something else entirely with the benefit of an existing user base.

Nah man, the ultrawealthy are used to having some avenue of publishing that they own. Bezos has the Washington Post, Twitter was supposed to be his "newspaper" so to speak.

Except he's a clown and can't keep from sticking his dick in everything so he just went ahead and fucked it.

It'sstrange to me to see people waxing nostalgic about Twitter when it's always been a cesspit.

Honestly twitter was already pretty awful. He just somehow made it awfuler