Elon Musk suggests Twitter modifications, not lengthy after becoming a member of the location’s board of administrators

Elon Musk — Twitter’s most “passionate believer and intense critic” — is forcing himself again onto our Twitter feeds to supply up steered fixes for the social media website, not lengthy after turning into a robust decision-making voice for the corporate.

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In a collection of tweets posted on April 9 and 10, Musk shared a plethora of tweaks he’d wish to see the location implement, together with an computerized verification checkmark for Twitter Blue subscribers and an finish to adverts. “The facility of companies to dictate coverage is tremendously enhanced if Twitter depends upon promoting cash to outlive,” Musk defined within the thread.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal introduced that Musk was becoming a member of Twitter’s board of administrators on April 5, not lengthy after the billionaire bought a 9.2 p.c stake within the firm and cemented himself as the corporate’s largest particular person shareholder.

Within the thread’s replies, Musk addressed a couple of customers’ feedback, acknowledging the inaccessibility of paid Twitter fashions and suggesting an choice to pay for subscriptions with cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Musk additionally famous that he’d wish to see variations in verification marks for common customers, public figures, and official accounts.

Musk’s tweets, like most of his web presence, appear to be a mixture of real opinion and attention-grabbing exaggerations.

And a few of his steered fixes have been simply outright jokes (we hope), with the brand new board member polling his followers on eradicating the “w” in Twitter, and gauging public opinion for turning Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters right into a homeless shelter, “since nobody reveals up anyway.”

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However that does not imply that a few of Musk’s extra life like fantasies could not be applied sooner or later.

As all the time, Twitter customers entered Musk’s replies in each assist and fury, the latter replying with reminders of earlier COVID-19 denial tweets, his lately controversial Starlink endeavors in Ukraine, and common criticism of his billionaire existence.

Musk’s thread, and his newfound sway, leads us to ask the age-old query: What is going on on over at Twitter? Who is aware of.