Despite all the ridiculous headlines, he's not "killing" Twitter. He's using it to drive a different kind of social change: a shift to the right.

That's something a lot of journalists dislike, hence all the attacks and hit pieces on him.

Note how the headline of even this very article is misleading: using the word "wipe" to suggest that the data was destroyed, as in wiping a hard drive, while that's not the case.