Posted on 10/28/2022 12:39:04 AM PDT by Morgana
Elon Musk has formally taken over Twitter, triumphantly posting 'the bird is freed' and immediately firing several top executives in what is being seen as his first power move.
His next move will be to restore Twitter users who have been handed lifetime bans from the platform - among them former president Donald Trump.
Twitter's CEO Parag Agrawal, the chief financial officer Ned Segal, and the top lawyer for the firm, Vijaya Gadde, were culled just hours after Musk finalized the $44billion acquisition.
Sean Edgett, the company's general counsel, and chief customer officer Sarah Personette were also pushed out - as the Tesla CEO set out to make his mark in his new position.
Musk himself will take over as CEO, a source told Bloomberg - although it may only be an interim role.
The fired Twitter executives were hastily shuttled from the building, sources told The Washington Post. Billionaire Musk is set to hold a company-wide town hall meeting on Friday.
Twitter's engineers could no longer make changes to code as of noon Thursday in San Francisco, part of an effort to ensure that nothing about the product changed ahead of the deal closing,
In a securities filing on April 14, Musk said he did not have confidence in Twitter's management and initially vowed to sack 75 percent of the workforce when he formally bought the tech giant.
Agrawal, who has repeatedly clashed with Musk over the number of users Twitter has, will walk away from his job with $42 million, after being chief executive officer for just under a year.
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And I hope and look forward to President Trump graciously accepting the move and returning to Twitter.
Why? He has his own outlet.
$42,000,000... as a good little Leftist, shouldn’t be giving most of that to charity, spreading the wealth, donating to USAID, the UN, UNICEF?
Not gonna happen. As the good, hypocritical Leftist that he is, he’ll live a good life until some other start up decides to give him a chance. He’s in the club. He won’t be out of work long.
Good riddance to those Twitter executives that turned a good way to people to interact into a Twitter hell.
Next, to clean up Facebook. Those idiots have the censor gun manned by bots that couldn’t tie their own shoe lace.
Is there a downside to this?
Elon needed a media outlet, just like every other billionaire.
Nothing to really see here.
(except the bee video which was funny)
Http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rFNCsSBnYVg
@realDonaldTrump returns?
The only charity they give to is when the photo op is great....
That was AWESOME!
The Babylon Bee has been re-instated already.
Why?! First, his platform is an echo chamber. Second, Twitter has hundreds of millions of users, some even real. Truth Social has about two million by some reports. Third, President Trump was banned, which was wrong. He should return when invited as it will mark a key early milestone in Musk’s effort to turn Twitter around. Trump will surely keep posting in his echo chamber but I think he gains more by leading the way back onto Twitter.
The Babylon Bee has been re-instated already.
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I’m sure it will be the first since is ban is what got Musk rolling
“The Babylon Bee has been re-instated already.”
Excellent!
Mr too!! Trump...my man...rejoin “Twitter”...every little bit of soap box chatter helps, Trumpie!!! With the election campaign coming to a close on Tuesday,November 8th,2022 & your massively attended campaign rallies in Miami, Latrobe, Sioux City, & Dayton going full steam, the country and voters will get the Trump/GOP/MAGA)(Make America Great) messageloud and clear!!!
Go Trump, Go GOP, Go Maga.....Politically Destroy the entire Democrat “Hate America” Party, from top to bottom...”AMEN”!!!
Why would he do that? He has his own site. He had said before he wouldn’t go back to twit
I was banned in July 2020… but they would not let me delete my account…I guess they needed it to prop up subscriber base.
Because info and posts can be shared through the two platforms!
Well done video. Sad but accurate.
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