Emergency Pod: Elon Musk Owns Twitter

<p>We look into the company’s weird new future with Times tech reporter Kate Conger. Plus, how Apple is single-handedly deciding the future of the digital economy, and a social media death watch. </p><p>Guest today:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/kate-conger">Kate Conger</a>, a technology reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times</li></ul><p>Additional resources: </p><ul><li>Elon Musk has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html">closed the $44 billion deal to own Twitter.</a></li><li>In the lead up to the deadline to complete the acquisition of the social media service, Elon Musk <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/business/elon-musk-visits-twitter.html">visited Twitter’s San Francisco office</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728">sought to reassure advertisers</a> about his plans for the platform through a Tweet.</li><li>Spotify has struggled to bring audiobooks onto its platform <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/business/spotify-apple-audiobooks-app.html">after Apple rejected Spotify’s new app three times.</a></li><li>The CEO of Altimeter Capital, the hedge fund and Meta shareholder, wrote a critical <a href="https://medium.com/@alt.cap/time-to-get-fit-an-open-letter-from-altimeter-to-mark-zuckerberg-and-the-meta-board-of-392d94e80a18">open letter to Meta and Mark Zuckerberg.</a></li></ul>