BREAKING: Good luck, Tweeps: Elon Musk is officially in charge.
Offline, one current employee was less inclined to joke. “It’s kind of insane to buy something just to burn it down,” she told The Daily Beast, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “That’s not sustainable, it can’t run on 25 percent capacity.”
A former staffer who recently left Twitter after growing alarmed about the prospective merger said that none of her coworkers had been happy about the buyout. “It was a mix of ‘I want to leave in protest,’ and just, ‘Let me find another job,’” she told The Daily Beast. of his entrance with the caption, “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!” The billionaire also changed his profile description to “Chief Twit.”by CNN Business, the firm’s chief marketing officer, Leslie Berland, explained Musk’s presence as “just the beginning of many meetings and conversations.”
It’s not clear what immediate changes Musk has in store for the company. He has previously pledged to restore Donald Trump’s account , otherwise reduce censorship, and expand the platform’s revenue streams. Just last week, he tweeted and then deleted a photo of himself, Trump, and the scandal-plagued rapper Kanye West dressed as the Three Musketeers and pointing to the names of their respective social media companies. “In retrospect, it was inevitable,” he wrote, of the trio.