Representatives for Twitter and Musk didn’t respond to requests for comment.
“It will depend on how he approaches it, if he can harness it for his free speech aims.”
“Asia has the potential to make or break the new Twitter,” said JJ Rose, a contributor to Australia’s nonpartisan Lowy Institute think tank. Once it’s a private concern controlled by the world’s richest man, Musk will personally shoulder responsibility for navigating that thicket - and the fallout if he fails. Twitter’s monetizable daily active users numbered 179 million internationally - dwarfing the 38 million in the US in 2021, according to its latest annual report.Īs a public company, Twitter has repeatedly emphasized it must abide by local regulations. The numbers alone suggest Musk’s biggest headaches lie abroad. and SpaceX billionaire makes good on promises to scrap censorship, he’ll encounter a plethora of perplexing regulations, wielded by sometimes authoritarian governments, pushed to the limits by a horde of first-time internet users. (file)įor all the furor about which way Elon Musk might tilt US political discourse after getting the keys to Twitter Inc, his biggest challenges may emerge across the Pacific.Īsia, home to more than half the world’s population, is Twitter’s biggest growth opportunity and arguably a far thornier challenge. Asia is Twitter’s biggest growth opportunity and arguably a far thornier challenge.