Private equity firms are already an absolute blight even before Musk's handling of Twitter. I've seen plenty of companies get purchased, completely gutted and then they try to extract maximum value from customers as quickly as possible before all customers abandon ship as the product(s) fall apart. They truly are scum.
Oh I agree. I just think that Musk upped the ante by not being a private equity firm and still outdoing them:
1. Fire most of the company
2. Introduce new charges (blue tick worked, but the API cost was just stupidly high)
3. Then start tearing into the platform, breaking shit
The 3rd bit is what's weird. Private equity don't usually want to destroy the product that they just bought. Perhaps he thought that Twitter needed to be simplified in order to be manageable with a skeleton crew, but it still doesn't explain a bunch of user-friendly changes or the lame "X" rebranding.
