> Either that or Saudi Arabia paid him to put a wrench onto the mechanism It's a cute theory, but if someone wanted to ruin Twitter, there are countless cheape

> Either that or Saudi Arabia paid him to put a wrench onto the mechanism It's a cute theory, but if someone wanted to ruin Twitter, there are countless cheaper, simpler ways, than buying it... and then on top of that "paying him" to ruin it. I mean Saudis have money, reportedly the family has around 1.4 trillion USD worth in wealth, but that's wasteful even by their standards. I'm sure they have other things to spend on rather than obsess over Twitter in particular and spend a significant percent of their wealth on killing it. I'm not a big fan of the "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" saying as it's often used to explain away actual malice. But in this case, no one even wins from this. Not the Saudis, not Elon, in a few months it'll be apparent the conservatives got nothing from it either. It's just blind incompetence and arrogance. There's no one to keep Elon in check.