Yesterday, Elon Musk called former Twitter developer Ian Brown a "jackass" after Ian questioned his plans for a complete Twitter re-write.

The whole conversation was bonkers.

Attached video has the context.

@atomicpoet It's so weird for someone to buy a tech firm when they want to throw away the tech stack, fire most of the employees, chase away the advertisers, and regularly insult the most valuable content creators.

What's the asset he paid for, then? The servers and the furniture?

@aneela He sold the furniture.

@atomicpoet Just...astronomical moronity.

He overpaid already, then turned it into a dumpster fire.

Now he's got a money hose going from Tesla into Twitter to join the dumpster fire.

@aneela @atomicpoet he paid for the userbase and the reputation. He is trying to destroy both, succeeding in destroying the latter