Elon Musk’s first year of owning Twitter looking back on a tumultuous timeline

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Start with the big idea and deal with any issues down the line. That was the assessment of Elon Musk biographer Michael Vlismas a year ago when asked how the world's richest man might go about running Twitter. The SpaceX owner had just bought the bird app for $44bn (£38bn) with a vague goal of transforming it into an "everything app" called X. Modelled on China's WeChat, it could become your one-stop shop for not just getting into arguments online and posting memes, but video calls, podcasts, and even banking. All while being an internet town square, committed to free...