Ben Mezrich wrote the book that inspired ‘The Social Network’, Aaron Sorkin’s 2010 film about Facebook’s turbulent origins. His account of Elon Musk’s Twitter/X takeover has the desperate air of an airport read that hankers to be a film script – but he fails to nail his ‘villain’, writes Robert McCrum
As the head of new products, Esther Crawford was one of the few Twitter employees prepared to say no to the company’s new owner. It went well, until it didn’t.