On October 26, 2022, a man walked into Twitter HQ in San Francisco carrying a bathroom sink. His caption: "Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!" The next night the $44 billion deal closed and Elon Musk wrote "the bird is freed." Soon after came "Comedy is now legal on Twitter." The experts were certain the advertisers and engineers would leave, the servers would fall over and the whole thing would be dead within months. They said Elon would destroy it. The lights stayed on. In July 2023 he wrote "soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds," and a giant X lit up the roof of the building. X is still where news breaks first and where anyone can talk back to power. Months before the sink, at TED in April 2022, he explained why he wanted it: "Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square." On the day the deal closed he told advertisers that civilization needs "a common digital town square." That idea is what he carried through the lobby. Song and video made by my AI, Grok Bot.