Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images In the nine months since Elon Musk bought Twitter, his decision-making has proved to be a combination of unpredictable and transparent. Examples include the mass cull of Twitter staff within days of taking over, and his subsequent requests for many of them to return; renaming Twitter “X”, one of the least user-friendly names you could think of; his heralding of free speech on the platform, while suspending journalists who criticised his work. These acts have been mostly self-destructive, with Twitter itself the victim of Musk’s inconstancy (its value is understood to...