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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Elon Musk unveils vision for Twitter (TWTR) after joining board

The Tesla CEO, who now owns 9.2% stake in the social media platform, offered suggestions and criticisms in a series of tweets.


Elon Musk posted his opinion on Twitter after buying a 9.2% stake in the company, in a series of posts on a social media site described by another analyst as having "power struggles".



Since his appointment on the Twitter board on Tuesday, Musk has posted a series of open-ended questions about the current and future of the site, highlighting new features, highlighting areas of concern, and making jokes. Often in Tesla's billionaire, it was not always clear what it was.


Musk’s long-standing concern over Twitter’s direction has been rating policies. Towards the end of March - after receiving a major share in the company, but before publicly disclosing that fact - he posted a Twitter poll asking users whether Twitter was following the principle of free speech. "As Twitter operates as a metropolitan area, failure to follow the principles of free speech undermines democracy," he added. “What should be done?”


In 2021, Musk declared: "Most people will not be too happy with West Coast high tech as a free speech mediator," and last month declared himself "the absolutist of free speech". Musk has personally embarked on a series of controversies on Twitter, such as in March 2020, when he wrote on Twitter that children were "unsafe" on Covid, which led to a call to the media to remove his titter in violation of the current laws regarding Covid's lies. Twitter eventually denied it, saying it did not break the rules "when reviewing the content and end of the tweet".


Since his appointment to the board, however, Musk has also suggested that there be more prosaic changes in the social media platform. In one tweet, you suggested adding a edit button to allow it


users rewrite their posts after posting, creating a resurgence of debate about whether such a feature could help or hurt global dialogue.



Musk expressed concern that many of Twitter's most frequently followed accounts "frequently and post very little content", asking: "Is Twitter dying? For example, Taylor Swift has not posted anything in 3 months. And Justin Bieber has only posted once this year. "


In another tweet, he criticized the service provided by Twitter Blue, a company registration package, saying it should come with a "confirmation" and no ads - because corporate policy enforcement forces are greatly enhanced if Twitter depends. with advertising money to make a living ”.


Some suggestions seem unlikely to succeed. Musk asked his followers if Twitter should relocate its headquarters in San Francisco to a homeless shelter "as no one shows up yet" (91% of his followers voted yes); he also asked them if he should "remove it from twitter?" This question, posted at midnight local time, came with two options: “yes” and “Yes”. More than a million people have joined the joke, with "yes" leading the way.


Drawing a line between a Twitter joke and a critical proposal can be difficult with a senior PayPal executive, who once made and sold flamethrowers, spent billions of dollars on Tesla stockpiles, and launched a car into space, all after suggesting he would do it. do that on social media.