Elon bought it to buy a bully pulpit for his other endeavors and to ingratiate himself with right wing lawmakers. It was the ultimate rich guy mid-life crisis b

Elon bought it to buy a bully pulpit for his other endeavors and to ingratiate himself with right wing lawmakers. It was the ultimate rich guy mid-life crisis buy. You and I might spring for a Porsche or a Corvette, the wealthiest of the wealthy pay almost 50B for a mediocre social network and write it off basically as an advertising, soft power play.