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Elon Musk is reportedly now officially in charge at Twitter, fires top execs
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Elon Musk is reportedly now officially in charge of Twitter, setting the scene for the platform's looming descent into a microblogged reenactment of Lord of the Flies. And apparently he's already started cleaning house.
According to CNBC's David Faber, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal have left the company's headquarters in San Francisco for the last time, shoved out the door by Musk's decree. They aren't the only executives that Musk has apparently fired either, with sources speaking to The New York Times adding head legal and policy executive Vijaya Gadde and general counsel Sean Edgett to the list of those let go.
Musk's $44 billion acquisition of Twitter was expected to result in staff cuts, with the wealthiest individual in the world having previously stated he planned on reducing the company's workforce by up to 75 percent. This would mean letting go of up to 5,000 employees.
There were some doubts as to whether Musk would actually follow through with his proposed cuts, and a handful of high-powered CEOs is a far cry from thousands of workers. But it wouldn't be surprising if Musk is just getting started. A source speaking to Bloomberg stated that Musk plans to take on the role of Twitter's CEO, though he may eventually hand it off to someone else. After all, he's already the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla.
Bloomberg also reports that Musk has asked Twitter's engineers to meet with Tesla engineers according to its sources. The former reportedly showed the latter the company's code so they could run Musk through it.
Yesterday Musk tweeted a video of himself carrying a sink into Twitter's headquarters, captioned "Entering Twitter HQ ā let that sink in!" He also tweeted a message to advertisers, attempting to keep the money rolling in by reassuring them Twitter will remain a safe space for ads, honest. Musk's laissez-faire view of content moderation has resulted in concerns Twitter may become a platform brands hesitate to associate with ā apprehension he likely wants quash before it dries up Twitter's primary revenue stream.
Acquiring a company and immediately firing the people who've been running it seems like a pretty risky idea, particularly on the first day before you even have your feet beneath you. Then again, Musk isn't exactly known for his thoughtful, considered decision-making. We'll see how it works out for him.
This is a developing story...
His first action? To fire anyone who disagrees with him....no great surprise there. I'm deleting my account later today. I have no interest in going forward with an out of touch billionaire.
ReplyDeletebye! Lol
Deletejust like youāre doing now on Facebook lmfao
Deleteisn't that Twitters general action ?? To fire anyone that doesn't conform .. just saying .
Deletea lot of new CEOs do this. Nothing new
ReplyDeleteShe/he/they/them blocked me,.I can't see the comments,.if someone would be kind enough to screen shots those comments and send them to me
Deletethe hypocrisy is unbelievable
DeleteJust like you ASSumed my political affiliations.
DeleteLet me guess; youāre underperforming in every area of your life, you sit around drinking Natty Light in your trailer park, complaining about Democrats, youāre poor and broke, intelligence is on a scale of toddler and youāre mad at the world for your shortšcomings.
Got it. Boy, we are done here
Letās review this exchange shall we? I asked who is āweā and ātheyā. You IMMEDIATELY brought up race, you nitwit š¤”š¤”š¤” No one mentioned race but you š¤”š©š
Deletelook at you... crying.. glorious
Deleteno! Heās firing tyrants. Iām opening back up my account today that I closed when the useful idiots censored Trump.
DeleteGo Elon and free speech! š
haha, Go! embracing the MAGA
Deleteyour a special kind of person š¤£šš¤£
DeleteBasically youāre saying you donāt want your voice heard and anyone who has a different opinion or account doesnāt deserve to be heard. Too bad. Debate sometimes is a valuable tool for education. Maybe you donāt realize the users of twitter are not out of touch but rather average people who make educated statements or brainwashed Trumpers who canāt agree with anything not on Fox News. Either way freedom of speech is a freedom that must never be quashed.
DeleteThere's the door, don't let it hit you on the way out!
Deleteoh wow look at you changing the goal post !! š¤š¤You were in fact about to pull the race card š¤£š¤£
DeleteLol. Who told you that...?
DeleteCNN or MSNBC??? š¤”š
Youāre really obsessed with my gender. Worry about your own lack of gender and stop worrying about mine. As I said, conversation is over. I can smell the meth and alcohol in this thread ššš
Deleteimagine doing the same thing they do, but they cry when we do it š¤š¤ crazy
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DeleteSo deflecting instead of admitting that he is no different. Gotcha.
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Deletehe fired the guy that was āfiringā (banning) everyone that disagreed with HIM. Makes perfect sense to me.
DeleteI love the hate filled comments yāall post, all the BS, everyone that go so upset in this thread needs to get offline, go outside and stop caring what other people think š
DeleteI am what Iāve always been; maybe you shouldnāt ASSume based on a profile pic, you dumbš
Deletedo you feel offended when I say "we" and "they" while libtards and democraps are trying to change pronouns to "we" and "they" and "them" pronouns ??? Bruh still reaching on the booksš¤ you to easily offended to be on the books.
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Deleteisnāt that what the far-left woke Liberals are doing at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Google, Facebookā¦and the White House? Itās not unusual in corporate takeovers that the top tier leadership gets axedā¦because if Twitter was doing a good job they wouldnāt have been taken over in the first place.
DeleteYouāre a hypocrite if you applaud/condone one side for their actions, but cry foul when the other side does something similar. Iām not a Trump or Musk fan, but Iām a fan of freedom of thought & expressionā¦.and a fan of truth & accountability. Thatās something the far-left are clueless on in every regard.
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DeleteAnd again, not a boy. But you are a sad excuse masquerading as a male. Iām getting small š energy. Canāt satisfy a women to save your life, can you?
Deleteumm you said "we" and "they' who TF you talking about š¤£š¤£
Deletewhy are you still on Facebook then
Deleteahh man here we go! A racist person coming in pulling the race card everyone lock your doors š¤š¤ he offended
Deletewith that type of questioning it's clearly obvious you were assuming I was being racist, you just hiding from the truth because you know I checked you š¤
Deleteimagine that.....free will! Ain't it awesome! Susan you're helping make America great again š š
Deletewasnāt that what the other guy was tho? Banning everyone what disagreed with their agenda?
DeleteNot a āheā; and the only one to mention race is you. I asked for clarification on what you meant but here you go, yelling and being deflective-per the usual
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please feel.free to make your own decisions without someone forcing you to. That's the beauty of a free platform. It's like Capatilism, take your money and business wherever you like that benefits you. I encourage that kind of freedom of choice.
Deleteš¤·you democraps changing your pronouns so much I don't know what to call you people š¤ and majority democraps wanna be a man any ways so it's not from the truth to assume you are a man š¤£š¤£ just like you your people being doing anyways
DeleteJohn Fowler T.D.S.is a mental illness as is ignorance, no cure..but try some dementia Joe Crack KOOLAID...
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DeleteI wonder how she felt about Jack lol
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DeleteI mean, it is a for profit company right nowā¦.. thatās also typical in any takeover that all execs are purged if their goals donāt align.
DeleteFinally, all of the exec team are supposed to get golden parachutes as well.
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Deletegoodbye. You were okay with banning Trump but are upset because Elon is opening up Twitter to everyone and getting rid of the source of prior bans?
Deleteyou need to try to see things from another personās perspective. Cancel culture is over at Twitter! He fired them because their policies were not conducive to free speech.
Deletebye!!! š āāļø
DeleteNo one..and I mean no one will miss you...
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who are they and who are we? Could you please clarify?
Deletenah the only one triggered is you, you replied to me lil boy
DeleteCrying over Twitter? Nah- I don't think so?
DeleteI'm sure they'll miss you. š¤£š¤£š¤£
DeleteThe masters of the cancel culture have been cancelled - what a great day for the race.
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DeleteJohn Fowler the lines between āfree speechā and using words as a weapon of hate and an incitement to violence is getting more and more blurred and many people seem to think the opportunity for one is a chance for the other.
DeleteWhoās āweā and ātheyā?
DeleteIf only they knew that it would take less than $50 billion to make that happen, everyone would have chipped in sooner.
Deletehey fox News is a great comedy show
DeleteYou mean "the New out of touch billionaire", right?
DeleteHe wants free speech so yes, he fired the nazis trying to do away with that on HIS platform.
Deleteoh wow imagine if the Democraps would apply that to the population and maybe people wouldnt end up claiming transgender and causing that communitys suicide rate to increase š¤ misgendering people is right wouldn't you agree š¤š¤£š¤£
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DeleteGood riddance!! I will join back up again on Sunday.
DeleteDonāt ASSume; I genuinely wanted to know who they and we were. YOU ASSumed it was about race because youāre a racist.
DeleteI wondered if it was a political we and they; or if we and they were rich vs poor. Your mind went to race. Very telling
Oh! Boo hoo leftard! š¤”šš„“š„“š„“
DeleteI'll have to not use Twitter harder than ever.
ReplyDeleteWell I don't really use Twitter anyway so I guess it doesn't matter if it implodes š
ReplyDeleteI love it. Finally everyone deserves a chance to be heard and not bullied by corporations
ReplyDeleteyou actually donāt deserve a chance to be heard. A corporation can do what it wants with the property they own.
Deletehis twitter is still going to ban peiple.
DeletePeople wanna act like Elon Musk taking over and firing people is some authoritarian takeover, as if Twitter wasnāt just the cesspit of the human social construct.
ReplyDeleteNow that they lost control of their playground, theyāre just taking their ball and going home š¤·āāļø
So, isn't the owner of a business supposed to be in control? I love it how they keep blowing this out of proportion. It's absolutely entertaining š¤£
ReplyDeletenever paid any attention to that platform ever.
ReplyDeletecannot stand him.
DeleteNeither have I, and with this takeover Iāll just continue to pretend that it doesnāt exist: Iāve got better things to do with my life.
DeleteNot for me it hasn't. In 2009 I looked into going to work for Tesla and decided it was a company I did not want to work for. Everything Musk has done and said since that time has proven my instincts correct. The man is a putz.
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Deletereally, he just donāt stop going at whatever he wants
Deleteim guessing in 2009 you got an email back saying tesla decided not to move forward with your application
Deletelol awe donāt be upset your application wasnāt even considered and you didnāt get to work for the richest man on the planet who is not a āputzāš¤£š¤£
DeleteIs because that young man wouldnāt take his offers to turn off his flight logs
ReplyDeleteSecond action - hire new corporate counsel to prevent him from saying stupid things. And a PR consultant.
ReplyDeleteLet freedom ring!
ReplyDeletehe will ban people from Twitter as well. What makes you think he wont?
DeleteBecause he favors an open forum for all sides. As it should be. Thatās why.
DeleteI had a repetitive motion injury. I was seeing an acupuncture doctor. He told me majority of his clients came from Nummi. Now it is Tesla, but he says instead of them being older in their 40ās/50ās the clients are in their 20ās with major work injuries.
ReplyDeleteThis is what he does. He didn't invent Tesla or SpaceX either. he bought them and got rid of people.
ReplyDeletehe founded space x
DeleteMy mistake he did.
DeleteRegardless of the left vs right people. Twitter isnāt and wonāt be a free speech platform without some serious changes.
ReplyDeleteIf a wealthy individual can hire people to create an army of fake accounts and actual influencer accounts to repeat propaganda or fear-monger then it is manipulation and that isnāt the spirit of what is meant by free speech at all. In a way, it is actually the exact opposite. A government or political institution is drowning-out the voice of the people, which imo, is the very definition of what freedom of speech is suppose to protect against. We just donāt see it clearly within social media.
Many of the tweets from politicians and influencers are done by automation. Theyāre not even really typing those messages.
If Elon wants to make it a real town hall platform then he needs to cut off all automation, find innovative ways to reduce the amount of fake accounts, enforce multi-factor authentication, enforce captchas to post, and reduce the ability for other people to log into accounts to post on someoneās behalf.
As long as propaganda is covered as free speech and done via automation then actual voices from real people get drowned-out and there is no real town hall platform and no actual freedom of speech.
It isnāt about left vs right. Get over yourselves already.
And just a POI, I do understand the constitutional definition of free speech and I am using that term in both the constitutional way and also the āspirit ofā meaning that isnāt actually what is stated in the constitution.
DeleteAll the people leaving mentioning leaving Twitter is a good sign. It will be less toxic š
ReplyDeleteNo exclamation point, well played
ReplyDeleteseems legit
Deletegood morning how are you doing today I hope you are doing well, please can you send me a friend request so we can get to know each other
Deletehahaha funny right
DeleteLike no one saw that coming, right? LoL
ReplyDeleteI read Musk said heās taking it in a different direction. Twitter was going up, guess that means down?
At least thereās going to be the entertainment value!
Good thing I've never used Twitter before and sure as hell won't use it now!
ReplyDeleteMost of the old guard donāt like change, thatās why they have to go, otherwise the company will just spin its wheels.
ReplyDeleteThe free ride is over !!! Work like everyone else.
ReplyDeletethe one whoās probably benefited the most from free rides
Deleterandom
DeleteSo twitter is over I guess...
ReplyDeleteWell , I never used Twitter anyways š¤Ŗ
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DeleteI hope he takes a one way trip to Mars on his next rocket launch.š
ReplyDeletePluto will be excellent
Deletethere's a Uranus joke somewhereš¤£
Deletewe can be friends.
DeleteWho cares...what's Twitter anyway š¤
ReplyDeleteA benchmark.
Deletetry twitter and you wonāt stop laughing again .
Deleteill pass
Deleteok your choice š
DeleteThere was a time when āShout out the Kanye West of Silicon Valleyā would be acceptable levity but how quickly the landscape can change
ReplyDeleteWish he bought meta, too š
ReplyDeleteI give about 6 months until he tries to sell it backš¤š
ReplyDeleteHe looks like Johnny Bravo in this picture...
ReplyDeleteI love ā¤ļø this guy he is one of the most beautiful brilliant people on earth
ReplyDeleteBrilliant news
ReplyDeleteyes , heās now going to make twitter free and lot of memes šš
DeleteAnd his second action is to give Trump back his account?
ReplyDeleteI love his new handle, āChief Twitā š š
ReplyDeleteWoop woop! Wtg! āļøšÆāļø
ReplyDeleteShould have quit when he sent the car and mannequin to orbit. That was cool. But no, can't reel another narcissist in...just a prior POTUS wannabe. Wait for it.
ReplyDeleteTwitter is garbage to begin with. 50% of Twitter are CCP bots/hackers the other 40% are scammers and or Putin bot hackers š¤¦š¤¦š¤¦š¤¦
ReplyDeletesociopat with the means to do great harm
ReplyDeleteDeleted my Twitter account this morning
ReplyDeletewhy? Are you anti Elon ?
Deleteyes. Anti-GOP Ghoul too. Twitter is a cesspool and will only get worse
Deletenice idea . We could be friends
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ReplyDeleteAll you people crying about billionaires flexing power haven't seemed to have had any problems with all the other tech billionaires when they flex their money and power. As long as they censored the speech you didn't like of course. Hint: you people are the reason he bought the bird company in the first place.
ReplyDeleteHey, should not be sorry for the people that left - Just heard the CEO got $42M payout, the CFO got $25M and Jack Dorsey got $1 billion in Cash.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome. Im sure Dorsey is gonna get a fat check, but I hope he disappears.
ReplyDeleteHe is now the major twit
ReplyDeleteI donāt do Twitterļæ¼ļæ¼
ReplyDeleteGoodbye San Francisco
ReplyDeleteone can only hope
Deleteemployees will have to run a real business now. Sad
DeleteMeanwhile, at the SEC
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There goes twitter
ReplyDeleteElon forms Skynet.
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