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Breaking Twitter review: Musk's Twitter storm reads like a film script

Ben Mezrich's story of how the SpaceX billionaire got tangled up in Twitter may end up a hit as a movie – but not as a book

By Chris Stokel-Walker

8 November 2023

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 31: Elon Musk attends Heidi Klum's 2022 Hallowe'en Party at Sake No Hana at Moxy LES on October 31, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

Larger than life: Elon Musk dressed up for a Halloween party in 2022

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AT TIMES over the past 18 months of courtship, falling out and eventual forced marriage between the mercurial billionaire Elon Musk and Twitter, the events of his takeover of the platform he calls the “de facto public square” seemed to come straight out of a movie.

Little wonder, then, that author Ben Mezrich has decided to document the chaotic whirlwind that surrounded Musk before, during and after his hostile takeover of Twitter,…

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