Elon Musk: The Visionary, Risk-Taker

After taking over as the new owner of Twitter, billionaire Elon Musk claims to have liberated the social networking and microblogging site.

After a protracted back-and-forth between the billionaire and the social network, the agreement was eventually finalized.

After the deal was finalized, Musk tweeted, "The bird app is freed," a few hours later. Because of its bird-themed logo, Twitter is often referred to as the "bird app."

Parag Agrawal, the company's CEO, as well as its CFO and head of safety, were all fired soon afterwards.

In this Slogging thread, our community discusses Elon's reign so far as Twitter's new CEO.

This Slogging thread is by Valentine Enedah, Mónica Freitas, Manas Goel, Teri and Janhavi Talhar occurred in slogging's official #technology channel, and has been edited for readability.

Well here we go😂: Elon begins his reign!
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/elon-musk-completes-44-bln-acquisition-twitter-2022-10-28/

Well, let that sink in!😂😂😂

What's your say on his reign so far?
Mónica Freitas I'm so eager to hear your thoughts.😂

More on Elon:😂

Valentine Enedah! Did you know that Musk just gave Trump and Andrew the Misogynist permission to get back to Twitter??! Here comes the hate speech era!
There are already people spreading racist ideas all over Twitter. To be honest, I'm this 👌 close to deleting my account.

Mónica Freitas I knew this was coming 😂

Musk is another in-cell waiting to come out. Sorry guys

Mónica Freitas Wow, that's crazy. I actually saw pictures of Trump on a bird. That makes a lot of sense now.
This is quite sad actually. Let's hope it doesn't get to the extreme. He shouldn't have allowed Trump back on twitter.

Mónica Freitas This is just the beginning😂

May the luck be ever in your favour #twitterhungergames

Mónica Freitas We still need you on twitter for stability.

True but if more and more people leave Twitter, that sends a message

Mónica Freitas Yeah and plus Elon proposed a $20 subscription for verified accounts on Twitter.
He later proposed an $8 fee.
Link: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144?s=20&t=Ka-JaoQbcfGe0uiWI3uLGA

Paying to remain verified would be wild.

Teri Actually, even fraudsters would pay to be verified. No one to trust.

Valentine Enedah way to make money, Musk! Plus, the massive lay off of employees has just started. It's going to be a wild wild west from now on

Mónica Freitas Really wild! Meta sacked over 11000 employees.

Valentine Enedah They don't have as such verification process, you get a blue tick if you paid. So anyone can enter the community and call themselves an expert if they have money to pay.

Janhavi Talhar Exactly! I hope it makes sense in the long run cause for now, anybody can get a blue tick with $8 dollars.

More on ELON😂

Elon just being elon.😂

Oh wow... Meta and Twitter had big dev teams... if they're both firing left and right I can't imagine what will be of these people - all left out in the cold because of some eccentric boss (the current economy can be part of the reason but as we know, it's not the only thing to blame)

Mónica Freitas It's actually going to be a problem. Imaging someone of 6 years applying for the same role as someone with just 2 years experience. It's chaotic!

Valentine Enedah, it's not easy. There are people who have been working in the industry for years but will still be looked down on because since they were fired, that must speak to their level of professionalism. Or women programmers who may see their chances reduced to get a new job because they're older, so they must be close to being mothers and that brings extras costs to businesses.

Mónica Freitas Actually, I didn't think so deeply into it to this extent. This indeed is really sad.
I hope Elon knows what he is doing!