Elon Musk hit Twitter on the weekend to share numerous ideas and concepts — and some jokes — on his imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the microblogging service.
Having just lately develop into Twitter’s single largest shareholder and the corporate’s latest board member, Musk will probably be pushing for no less than a few of his concepts to develop into a actuality within the coming months.
One notable suggestion could have been supplied tongue-in-cheek nevertheless it was shortly supported by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. It’s an thought to transform Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters right into a homeless shelter “since nobody reveals up anyway” — a reference to Twitter’s pandemic-related choice to let its workers work at home in the event that they wished. Musk ran a ballot on the offbeat thought, with 91% of the 2 million respondents agreeing with the proposal.
Convert Twitter SF HQ to homeless shelter since nobody reveals up anyway
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022
Responding to Musk’s suggestion, fellow billionaire Bezos tweeted that, on the very least part of the constructing may realistically be transformed right into a shelter as Amazon has already accomplished simply that at its Seattle headquarters.
Or do portion. Labored out nice and makes it straightforward for workers who wish to volunteer. https://t.co/r0dZWsMxWT https://t.co/NbUNl1bkJ3
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) April 10, 2022
In one other tweet, Musk stated he would favor it if Twitter had no advertisements, explaining: “The facility of firms to dictate coverage is drastically enhanced if Twitter will depend on promoting cash to outlive.” Nonetheless, he did not say how the corporate would cowl Twitter’s misplaced advert income, which within the final quarter totaled $1.4 billion.
In one in every of his much less controversial musings, Musk prompt to his 81 million Twitter followers that anybody who indicators up for Twitter Blue — the $3-a-month tier that gives extra options — ought to be mechanically given an authentication mark. Nonetheless, he added that the mark ought to be totally different from the checkmark given to public figures and official accounts.
Discussing the edit button, which Musk’s personal current Twitter ballot prompt round three-quarters of customers need, the billionaire entrepreneur stated that whereas Twitter Blue has one thing near it within the type of an undo button, he discovered the function to be of little use and so had turned it off. He hasn’t but defined how he would implement a extra helpful edit operate, however little doubt he’ll be sharing some concepts on that specific topic quickly.
The boss of SpaceX and Tesla additionally discovered time to launch a fairly extra absurd ballot asking if the “w” ought to be faraway from Twitter’s title, with the 2 voting choices listed as “sure” and “after all.”
Delete the w in twitter?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022
When Musk discovered final week that he’d been given a spot on Twitter’s board, he tweeted that he was wanting ahead to working with the crew “to make vital enhancements to Twitter,” although how a lot affect he’ll actually have stays to be seen.
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