Kurt Wagner

Kurt Wagner has reported on social media since 2013, at Fortune, then Mashable, then Recode, before joining Bloomberg News in 2019, where his beat runs from Meta to the company Twitter has become. Battle for the Bird, his debut, follows Jack Dorsey's return to run Twitter in 2015, the platform's long argument over Donald Trump's account, and the 44 billion dollar sale to Elon Musk in 2022 that ended with the service renamed X. The reporting leans on people who worked inside the company rather than on the public record, and the book treats Dorsey, not Musk, as the figure whose choices set up everything that followed. Wagner grew up near Seattle, studied at Santa Clara University, and lives in Denver.