Elon Musk’s Controversial Twitter Takeover, Explained

As made clear in the early days of the Elon Musk era of Twitter, the platform’s unique status among social media offerings is changing rapidly, with many longtime users expressing mounting frustrations over looming changes.

This has been coupled, of course, with a shared feeling of grief brought on by the realization that Twitter (or at least Twitter as we’ve come to know it since its initial launch way back in 2006) could very well be in its final days.

While the hectic firestorm surrounding this incarnation of Twitter continues to grow by the day, we’ve taken a look at what all has happened in the months since the Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder first floated the idea of buying Twitter, as well as speculate on what could be next for the platform.