Extremely Hardcore

“Schiffer offers a detailed look under the smoke-filled hood… deploying a crisp, matter-of-fact style to excellent effect.”
— The New York Times

“Schiffer … has become one of the most indispensable chroniclers of the chaos inside [Twitter].”
— The Washington Post

“Extremely Hardcore by Zoë Schiffer, is a sharp and deeply sourced fly-on-the-wall account…It’s also packed with original reporting; Schiffer single-handedly broke a great deal of news on Twitter’s inner workings herself.”
— Financial Times

“Zoë Schiffer has the wonderfully gossipy and perfectly timed story on what’s happening in the company formerly known as Twitter. As much as this book is of the moment, it’s also a story of the ages, one of hubris, hero worship, and ultimately, the destruction of a company that should have been a public good.”
— Bethany McLean, coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room, All the Devils are Here, and The Big Fail

“It used to be said that Twitter was like a clown car that drove into a goldmine and fell in. Zoë Schiffer’s incredibly written and astonishingly reported book about the Musk era of the world’s craziest company tells the story of a man who took the clown car, strapped a rocket to the back of it, and then slammed it into a wall at 100,000 miles an hour. You simply won’t be able to put this book down.”
— Nick Bilton, author of American Kingpin and Hatching Twitter

“Twitter was an extraordinary idea that, thanks to incompetent management, never lived up to its promise. Then Elon Musk bought it. Zoë Schiffer’s brilliant book exposes…the malicious idiocy of Musk and his sycophants.”
— Roger McNamee, tech investor and author of the NYT bestseller Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

Zoe Schiffer is the managing editor of Platformer, where she covers Twitter, X Corp., and Elon Musk. Previously, she was a senior reporter at The Verge, where she reported on the labor movement in Silicon Valley. Her work has been featured in New York, San Francisco Chronicle, and Vox. She’s appeared on CNN, NBC, CNBC, and the BBC.

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