Breaking Twitter Quotes

“it was an out-of-context, minor point.”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“An update on the war in the Ukraine, for example, coming from an anonymous user, versus an update from a Blue Checked reporter from Reuters, with a bio that put him or her on the ground in Kiev, could be read differently.”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“Maybe it was part of a larger, cultural shift, maybe it was in conjunction with a wave of excess and decadence sweeping through Silicon Valley itself, or perhaps it was just a symptom of the company’s own success, but in any case Twitter’s mission had become secondary to employees’ lifestyles. Two-hour lunch breaks morphed into two-month leaves of absence. New committees on every possible imagined cause were formed almost daily, eating up hours of productivity and usually collapsing over petty disagreements without ever accomplishing a thing. When people did, eventually, show up to work, there was a noticeable lack of focus.”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“giving them back to any celebrity whose account had over a million followers. Just as suddenly as the level playing field had begun, it had ended; the legacy Blue Check system was back in place, as arbitrary”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“Fifty years ago, they would have been celebrating in the streets. Even six months ago, they might very well have been cheering Elon on in newsrooms across the country and around the world.”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“Even so, the headlines seemed unfair.”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“All the headlines would be factually correct, but there were facts, and then there was the Truth.”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“temporarily”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“One of the billionaires’ many followers posted one of Yoel’s own ancient tweets from November 2010, well before Yoel had gone to work for the platform: Can high school students ever meaningfully consent to sex with their teachers?”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“Sacks, too, was throwing out wilder and wilder ideas, as good an acolyte as any billionaire could hope to have.”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“Vijaya,”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“They all knew what was coming, and if they didn’t, they could see it in the separation between the two camps—Twitter 1.0 and 2.0—and even in David Sacks’s smirk.”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“What did you get done this week?” Elon had shot back to Parag.”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“The riots had led to more than 840 arrests, multiple deaths and injuries, investigations, and massive ongoing litigation, and had clearly been instigated by the perception that the 2020 election had been fraudulent.”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

“It was easy, in retrospect, after many aspects of the Post’s reportage were eventually corroborated by more news agencies, to judge Twitter’s actions in subduing the story—but it was also easy to forget how chaotic that moment in time was.”
― Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History