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'Character Limit' unveils Musk's expensive Twitter buy and its real impact

Mr Trump (then ex-President) also gets a fair share of attention in the book, particularly about how he used Twitter and other social media to make false claims

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
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Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

Prosenjit Datta
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
Author: Kate Conger & Ryan Mac
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 439
Price: Rs 999
  Two things about this book and its authors. One, this is the most unputdownable non-fiction that I have read this entire year. It can hold its own against the best of fiction thriller page-turners available today. 
Two, despite the brilliant reporting, writing and analysis by the authors, I suspect Elon Musk is having the last laugh. He may have massively overpaid for Twitter — now labelled X — on a whim with borrowed money, and then gone about destroying its value through all sorts