TOBY SHAPSHAK: Elon Musk’s Twitter madness is a columnist’s gift

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TOBY SHAPSHAK: Elon Musk’s Twitter madness is a columnist’s gift
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But his behaviour is very worrying, not least because ‘bullying is not leadership’, writes shapshak.

Just as Donald Trump was a boon to cartoonists and satirists, Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter is the gift that keeps on giving to technology columnists.

Whatever happens with the world’s richest person’s audacious $44bn bid to buy the digital world’s “ de facto public town square” it is going to be a wild ride. Musk should stay focused on his plan to “save humanity”. But there is no talking to billionaires with a bee in their bonnets...

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