The curious minds at ColdFusion look back at the chaotic saga of Elon Musk and Twitter to uncover how it all began.

Through a stroke of good fortune, Elon Musk’s otherwise disastrous purchase of Twitter has turned into one of the great business acquisitions of all time. Buying control of a president was a start.

A former exec testified that it stopped paying rent on 64,500 square feet as a “renegotiating tactic — a tactic to save money ...