What happens when disruptors hit reality head-on

New podcast alert! Crash Course brings listeners directly into the arenas where epic business and social upheavals occur. Every week, the po [Bloomberg]( Follow Us [Get the newsletter]( New podcast alert! [Crash Course]( brings listeners directly into the arenas where epic business and social upheavals occur. Every week, the podcast explores the lessons to be learned when creativity and ambition collide with competition and power. Host Tim O'Brien, Bloomberg Opinion’s senior executive editor, will sit down with reporters, experts and newsmakers to help listeners wade through the week’s biggest headlines. Up first, in the debut episode of Crash Course: Twitter, which was a pivotal force in debates about information, disinformation, the media, celebrity, politics and all sorts of other issues. Along came Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX’s innovative magician and chief loudmouth. He said he wanted to buy Twitter, then he said he didn’t, then the courts made him reconsider, and then he bought it. His brief three-month tenure as Twitter’s owner and new CEO has been chock-full of calamity: tragicomic mismanagement, mass layoffs, censorship and personal histrionics. Tim talks to Bloomberg News tech reporter Kurt Wagner, who has boatloads of knowledge on how the platform handles what gets poured into our eyes and ears. Tim and Kurt discuss the obstacles Musk — more brilliant engineer and disruptor than media manager — probably didn’t anticipate as the owner of a massive social media platform. So where do Musk, Twitter and its users go from here? Listen and subscribe: - [Subscribe to Crash Course on the iHeartRadio app]( - [Subscribe to Crash CourseÂ]([on Apple Podcasts]( - Subscribe to Crash Course on Spotify]( This is the Theme of the Week edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a digest of our top commentary published every Sunday. New subscribers to the newsletter can [sign up here](; follow us on [Instagram](, [TikTok](, [Twitter]( and [Facebook](. Like getting this newsletter? [Subscribe to Bloomberg.com]( for unlimited access to trusted, data-driven journalism and subscriber-only insights. Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out more about how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can’t find anywhere else. [Learn more](. You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Opinion Today newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Bloomberg.com]( | [Contact Us]( [Ads Powered By Liveintent]( | [Ad Choices]( Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022