I hope, for your sake, that you lead a richer, more spiritually fulfilling life than I do and that the hour-by-hour machinations of Elon Musk’s Twitter account are merely a vague curiosity. Twitter has been under Musks leadership for close to two weeks, in which time he has dismissed roughly half its workforce and most of its executive suite. Moreover, Twitter’s fate is wrapped up in the identity of the world’s richest man, whose lack of expertise on how social platforms work could collapse the whole enterprise. It’s used by activists and dissidents, and what happens on Twitter does not stay contained to the internet. Twitter, despite its relatively small size, has disproportionate importance in our politics and culture. Musk’s Twitter takeover is like so many things in American life in 2022: It is both dumb and consequential. Over the past few weeks, tech observers and Twitter obsessives like myself have been following every twist and turn that will ultimately decide the fate of the platform. Once you’ve familiarized yourself with the extended universe, tearing your attention away can be hard. Reports emerged earlier this week indicating that the world’s richest man was preparing to dismiss 3,700 of the 7,500 employees at Twitter. This weekend, Musk was widely criticized for tweeting a link to a fringe. Musk gathered several human-resource executives in. Elon Musk, the incoming owner of social media platform Twitter, notified thousands of employees whether they would be staying at the company or departing amid efforts to reduce operating costs. While Musk has a reputation as an innovative entrepreneur, he is also known for erratic and controversial behavior.
28, hours after completing his 44 billion buyout of Twitter the night before, Mr. Twitter published a note confirming that the SpaceX and Tesla entrepreneur has taken a 9. The Times recounted how the layoff plan developed: 'On Oct.
It is an exhausting, enraging, and sometimes grimly hilarious spectacle that changes by the hour. Elon Musk buys 9.2 share of Twitter on April 4th. There’s a ton of confusion lots of firings people shredding documents outlandish, impossible-to-execute ideas being floated sycophantic advisers nervous employees trying to appease a mercurial man and tweets-so many tweets. Though it feels reductionist to compare Elon Musk and Donald Trump, the Musk era at Twitter has some eerie parallels to the Trump White House. Musk joined Twitter in 2009 and now has more than 112 million followers the third most of any account after former president Barack Obama and Canadian singer Justin Bieber.
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