As we sweat it out waiting to hear if Twitter's board will accept Tesla CEO and DMCAmeme lord Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter for $41 billion (a fraction of his estimated $219 billion net worth), Twitter has done what it does best: react in dramatic fashion.
Over the course of the morning of April 14, #Leave Twitter, #MySpace, and #Tumblr have trended as users muse about a Musk-owned future and recall the struggles of other platforms who were acquired and mismanaged. We combed though the hot takes, which ranged from perplexed and playful to political and provocative.
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