{"id":206238,"date":"2022-11-08T17:56:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T16:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=206238"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:21:04","slug":"twitter-reform-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/twitter-reform-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we ready for Musk’s Twitter revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Twitter Takeover<\/a> has been the dominating story on various of social and news media. Practically anywhere you look online, you\u2019re likely to see some piece of media either praising or condemning Elon Musk. While we here at Softonic won\u2019t take either of the supposedly clear-cut sides in this story, we will bring you all of the facts <\/strong>that you need to take a stance of your own. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The following article will be an exploration of the current Twitter climate<\/strong>, including the situations leading up to the recent landmark buyout. Before we start, I\u2019d like to address the fact that this story has not been exempt from political biases. In an effort to support our continuing impartiality on this matter, we\u2019ll refer to these political biases when necessary but will refrain from either supporting or condemning them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How it all started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are actually two stories here. The first revolves around what some might term an enigmatic, altruistic billionaire dedicated to creating a digital town square<\/a> that promotes and supports free speech. The second story is about the same enigmatic billionaire and his quest to revitalize his old dream of X.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the first story seems to be the one gaining the most traction, that\u2019s where we\u2019ll start. But we\u2019ll get back to the second story because the enigmatic billionaire, Elon Musk, has stated outright that Twitter is a means to an end, in some respects. And perhaps that end is X.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free speech: A billionaire\u2019s dream<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Reeve Musk was born in Pretoria, a city in a South African province formerly known as The Transvaal, modern-day Gauteng. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor\u2019s degree in both art and science. Since then, he has gone on to found numerous companies<\/strong>, become the CEO of many more, and he\u2019s even taken active roles as a chief engineer and product architect of SpaceX and Tesla respectively. The list of companies that Musk sits at the head of is more than can fit on a single hand, and, as of October 27, 2022, includes the global social media behemoth, Twitter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A great many events and situations led up to the eventual acquisition, but at the core of the move lay a desire for free speech<\/strong>. Musk\u2019s aquisition of Twitter<\/a> is widely believed to be seeded by Twitter user, Dave Smith, who suggested that he buy the social media giant after Musk declared a love for the app. Musk, in response, tweeted \u2018@redletterdave How much is it?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Subsequent to the Tweet, Musk started circulating polls on Twitter. The most controversial of these polls was one wherein the billionaire asked users to indicate whether they believed \u2018free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depending on which side of the aisle you ask, Twitter has been a hotbed of censorship and post removal because certain demographics\u2019 views and comments are seen as offensive and contravening Twitter\u2019s community guidelines. However, this wasn\u2019t the only factor that lead Musk to make the Twitter powers that were an offer that they have since chosen not to refuse. Musk stated that he wanted to accomplish three things with his acquisition of Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n