Chapter 83: The Three Musketeers: Twitter, October 26–30, 2022

Elon Musk, along with his brother Andrew and cousin James, begins a rapid technical assessment of Twitter's codebase and infrastructure in the days immediately following his acquisition, assembling a small team to evaluate the platform's software architecture.

In late October 2022, immediately after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk convened a small group to conduct an intensive technical audit of the platform. His brother Andrew Musk and cousin James Musk joined him, along with technical advisors including Dhaval Shroff and Ross Nordeen, who focused on studying Twitter's software architecture and evaluating the company's code quality. This core team, dubbed 'the Three Musketeers' by Isaacson, worked to understand the state of Twitter's technical infrastructure as a foundation for the operational changes Musk intended to implement. The chapter captures the beginning of Musk's hands-on involvement in dismantling and reconstructing Twitter's internal systems during the earliest phase of his ownership.