Elon & Twitter 7

Follow-up to this post

It's done. Twitter sued to force Elon Musk to finish the purchase of the company which he started last spring. Before the case went to court, he complied and last week bought Twitter. 

So the employees are happy now, right? Nope, they sound angry. They demand (open letter draft) that Elon change nothing: 

• Don't fire anybody (Because that would be undignified, because if we work in a foreign country we could lose our visas, because we would lose perks like health ins!)
• Don't wreck our contribution to public conversation (Because nothing improves public conversation like censoring people we hate!)

But - too late. He already fired the CEO and two other executives, and talks about firing more. It's common when a company comes under new ownership that he/she brings in a new team.

Last Wednesday he personally carried a sink into Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. He tweeted a video of it saying: "Entering Twitter HQ -- let that sink in!"

(cont'd tomorrow)