WASHINGTON: Tesla billionaire and world’s richest person Elon Musk has now become new owner of one of the most popular social media company Twitter.
Western media reports quoted credible sources as confirmed that Elon Musk had closed his $44 billion deal to buy the social media service, and had started to set the management right with firing at least four top Twitter executives — including the chief executive and chief financial officer .
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Responding to the Twitter deal news, Elon Musk took to Twitter and tweeted, “the bird is freed.”
the bird is freed
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022
The CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has said he wants to “defeat” spam bots on Twitter, make the algorithms that determine how content is presented to its users publicly available, and prevent the platform from becoming an echo chamber for hate and division, even as he limits censorship.
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Some reports suggest Vijaya Gadde was the lady who made to call to permanently suspend former US President Donald Trump from Twitter.
NOW: Elon Musk just FIRED Vijaya Gadde, the woman who made the call to suspend Donald Trump permanently.
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) October 28, 2022
Reports suggest Elon Musk had arrived at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday and met with engineers and ad executives.
Just yesterday, he changed his Twitter bio to read only “Chief Twit.” He previously said he would become the leader of Twitter, although the title of CEO is not important to him.
