Musk Wants Twitter To Be Like A ‘Digital Town Square’

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1667572252314{margin-top: 70px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Elon Musk has said that he wants Twitter to be like ‘a digital town square’. But what does he mean by that? Luckily, Planet Crypto has had access to Mr Musk’s head, where it overheard discussions between the two sides of this complicated, very rich, slightly bonkers man.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][pc_twitter_header pc_twitter_header__banner_image=”269″ pc_twitter_header__profile_image=”270″ pc_twitter_header__name=”Good Elon Musk” pc_twitter_header__handle=”GoodElon” pc_twitter_header__tagline=”Good/bad entrepreneur who’s wanting to make Twitter like a “Digital Town Square“” pc_twitter_header__joined=”Joined June 2009″ pc_twitter_header__following=”112″ pc_twitter_header__followers=”95M” pc_twitter_header__followed_by=”EVERYBODY”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”273″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]So, I want Twitter to be like a digital town square.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Ugh. That sounds all wet and wishy washy and sensitive and blah-blah-blah.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]I just mean it should be a place where people meet to converse, pass the time of day… or swap ideas and discuss more complex issues. Sharing their knowledge and opinions as they search for the ineluctable truth about important matters.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Sorry, I feel asleep about 3% of the way through that sentence. Some rubbish about… talking?[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]If you like… basically, it should be a place of respect and friendly exchange.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]You do realise that you now run Twitter and not some namby-pamby rural church?[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]I know that! I’m not an idiot.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Except when you call people paedos for no reason.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]That’s you! It’s not me![/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Believe what you like, mate. I can’t believe you think this ‘town square’ will be all gentle and nice.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Oh, no, I’m sure there’ll be disagreements and arguments… but they’ll be polite and respectful, affairs, complete with proper grammar and spelling.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]So polite debate and discussion? That’s your schtick for this ‘town square’?[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Essentially. And maybe there’ll be a nice stall in the corner selling artisanal bread and grotesquely over-priced cheeses.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]So the cheese equivalent of a Tesla.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]What?[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Nothing. Anyway, I think I can live with your whole ‘town square’ thing.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]You can?[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Yeah. Because you’ve clearly not been to a town square since, like, 1875.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]What do you mean?[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Town squares these days are mostly hell-holes. Full of drunk, angry shouty people. Often pissing over everything.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Okay…[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]And that stall selling artisanal bread and cheeses? That’s now a kebab van selling meat you wouldn’t feed to your dog, with a free side order of salmonella.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Oh.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Which means we won’t have to change anything — because that’s pretty much what Twitter is right now! So I say let’s go with the digital town square thing.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]It doesn’t sound as good now.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]So maybe we should just demolish the square and put up some poorly built over-priced apartments…? Yeah, let’s do that instead.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”270″ pc_tweet__name=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__handle=”GoodElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]I’m all sad now.[/pc_tweet][pc_tweet pc_tweet__profile_pic=”274″ pc_tweet__name=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__handle=”EvilElon” pc_tweet__text=”Oh, look. Parag Agrawal has tweeted an explanation of how Twitter calculates its spam quotient. That’s so helpful.”]Serves you right, paedo.[/pc_tweet][/vc_column][/vc_row]