“Twitter’s a boring, broken product,” Jason Miller told me during a phone call the morning of Oct. 28. “Unsalvageable. The numbers don’t make any sense. Twitter’s dead.”
We were talking only a day or so after the final purchase of the company by Elon Musk for a whopping $44 billion.
Of course, Miller happens to be the founder and CEO of competing social media company GETTR, so not exactly a neutral party.
But that doesn’t mean he’s wrong. The $44 billion price tag is a big chunk of change, even to the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and there is some reason to believe that Musk was backed into it or backed himself into it over the bots (phony accounts) controversy….