The board of directors thanked, the teams were mobilized, surveys and all kinds of promises. Elon Musk, the new leader of Twitter, wasted no time in making his mark on the influential social network. The Tesla and SpaceX boss bought the California-based company on Thursday and immediately dissolved the board of directors, becoming “Twitter’s sole admin“, according to an official document filed with the Financial Markets Regulatory Authority (SEC) on Monday.
He also fired several senior officials, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, and launched several major projects, according to several US media and employees. So, Twitter engineers began working on an overhaul of the account subscription and verification system this weekend. The idea would be to add the verification service, the blue sign that verifies the identity of users, to the practical paid functions launched last year, and to increase the price to $20 per month instead of $5.
Users who have already received this certificate will lose it after three months if they refuse to subscribe to the new subscription, according to The Verge. The engineers involved are expected to work tirelessly to turn around this version by November 7, and have been told their work is done. The new boss also asked teams to relaunch Vine by the end of the year. Twitter bought the super-short video app in 2012, long before TikTok seriously popularized the format, but pulled it four years later.
“Tesla minions»
Elon Musk, who renamed himselfMain Tweet:on his profile (“tweet“meaning”sillyin English), on Friday brought in Tesla developers to review the work of Twitter employees. By: washington post:the multibillionaire plans to lay off about 75% of his new company’s 7,500 employees.
“The ongoing dismissal process is a farce and a disgrace. Tesla’s henchmen make decisions about people they know nothing about except the number of lines of code produced. It is completely absurdtweeted Sunday Taylor Leese, director of the engineering team, who says he’s been fired.
The world’s richest man, however, will need some shots to reveal “incredible potentialhe sees so far unprofitable platform. Most of Twitter’s revenue currently comes from brands that want to support their ads with consensus content. Elon Musk detailed his vision to them on Thursday, “online public placewhere all opinions can be expressed without becominginfernal“.
And on Monday, he traveled to New York, where his team met with several advertisers to try to reassure them, reports The Information. On Friday, the car manufacturer General Motors announced that it is temporarily removing its advertising from Twitter.
“Troll Elon»
Elon Musk promised to create “content moderation boardto define the limits that he currently considers too restrictive, like many right-wing politicians. So far, the whimsical leader with 112 million subscribers seems to provide the after-sales service himself. He responded to various user complaints accusing Twitter of censorship, noting one that the network should “be balanced and take no sides“and to the other that profiles”suspended for trivial or questionable reasons (will be released) from Twitter Jail“.
On Sunday, he himself deleted one of his tweets, which contained a reference to a conspiracy theory about the attack on the husband of House Democrats Nancy Pelosi. “Troll Elon should warn the Twitter boss of Elon’s removal (this tweet).“Former UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, David Kaye, sarcastically commented on the billionaire’s various hats.
As soon as the acquisition by the libertarian billionaire was announced, the platform faced a resurgence of activity from malicious accounts, with tweets bursting with “The N-wordRacist slurs are unheard of in the US. “This is a small number of accounts“, which are mostly “not genuine“Joel Roth, the site’s security manager, responded by announcing that he had taken action against the perpetrators.
“Musk has to climb a mountain the size of Kilimanjaro to fix Twittercommented analyst Dan Ives, citing issues with content monetization, user engagement and competition from other apps.
Source: Le Figaro
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