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The recent announcement by Elon Musk, entrepreneur, investor, business magnate, and the world’s richest man, in acquiring a stake in Twitter for $46.5 billion, thereby turning a public limited company into a private one, has made headlines across the world. There are proponents of the deal who say that Mr. Musk will _______ Twitter more open, ensure freedom of speech and provide choice to users for subscription-based services. However, skeptics are of the opinion that Twitter will become more centralized in its operations and processes, thereby may make its content moderation more biased towards certain ideals that Mr. Musk possibly endorses.

While the devil is in the details and how Mr. Musk plans to change the way in which content moderation is carried out on Twitter, what happens when a significant social media intermediary such as Twitter goes private? First, economists define a public good as one that is non-excludable and a private good that is excludable. Twitter, having about ‘330 million monthly active users’ has been a forum of expression and the “go-to” place for many including politicians, celebrities, activists, and scholars; it resembles a town hall, as Mr. Musk has himself been quoted as saying. Even after upping the word limit to 280 characters, Twitter continues to be the only microblogging platform for powerful short messaging with features such as pinning, Twitter moments, Twitter highlights, and Twitter lists to name a few. The Twitter Application Programming Interfaces (API) along with powerful advanced search features enables users to analyze Tweets for trends in global politics, the media, news, and so on. However, when this public forum is taken to the private space, the danger lies in excludability — exclusion of certain sets of users based on some criterion including the fees that they pay for their services and their orientation towards certain ideologies, races, or religions, sexual orientation, and even demographics.