> Because he has a track record of doing things no one else could.

Like installing solar panels on people's roofs?

It's more interesting looking at what he succeeded in doing against the odds.

Anybody who's doing incredible things will fail incredibly at least half the time.

>>>> I have no idea why anyone would expect him specifically to be able to [fix Twitter] while no one else could

>>> Because he has a track record of doing things no one else could.

>> Like installing solar panels on people's roofs?

> It's more interesting looking at what he succeeded in doing against the odds.

Not when you're dealing with the incredible and persistent hype that follows Musk.

> Anybody who's doing incredible things will fail incredibly at least half the time.

Which is exactly my point. Past performance is no guarantee of future results, even with Musk. Unfortunately he's built a cult of personality around himself, and too many people view him as some kind of tech-god (er, "technoking") that can succeed at anything.

This actually points to his greatest advantage: he never has to actually deliver. Just having his name on it will be enough to get all his fanboys to stop whining about Twitter, even if nothing changes at all.

Like building a tunnel ?

yea and its 1$ fair with those amazing 150mph pods that bring your car down from road level via a elevator... its amazing i wonder why they made their video of it private.

How many projects have you attempted?

Because it is one of a myriad of examples of the ways he has taken an uninteresting idea created by others and used his preexisting wealth to coerce people and institutions into giving him credit for other people's work.

And all "things no one else could" are equivalently difficult and take the same skills, so if he could do a couple of them, of course he can do all the others.

/s, in case it wasn't obvious.

Building SpaceX is not the same set of challenges as fixing Twitter. They are different enough to be completely unrelated.