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 turn into Twitter’s single largest shareholder and been provided a spot on the corporate’s board (since declined), Musk will doubtless be pushing for not less than a few of his concepts to turn into a actuality within the coming months.
One notable suggestion could have been provided tongue-in-cheek nevertheless it was rapidly supported by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. It’s an concept 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 staff do business from home in the event that they wished. Musk ran a ballot on the offbeat concept, 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 might realistically be transformed right into a shelter as Amazon has already executed simply that at its Seattle headquarters.
Or do portion. Labored out nice and makes it simple for workers who need to volunteer. https://t.co/r0dZWsMxWT https://t.co/NbUNl1bkJ3
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) April 10, 2022
In one other tweet, Musk said he would like it if Twitter had no advertisements, explaining: “The ability of firms to dictate coverage is drastically enhanced if Twitter is dependent upon promoting cash to outlive.” Nevertheless, he didn’t say how the corporate would cowl Twitter’s misplaced advert income, which within the final quarter totaled $1.4 billion.
In considered one of his much less controversial musings, Musk suggested to his 81 million Twitter followers that anybody who indicators up for Twitter Blue — the $3-a-month tier that provides extra options — ought to be routinely given an authentication mark. Nevertheless, he added that the mark ought to be completely different from the checkmark given to public figures and official accounts.
Discussing the edit button, which Musk’s personal latest Twitter ballot instructed round three-quarters of customers need, the billionaire entrepreneur mentioned 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 perform, however little doubt he’ll be sharing some concepts on that individual topic quickly.
The boss of SpaceX and Tesla additionally discovered time to launch a reasonably extra absurd ballot asking if the “w” ought to be faraway from Twitter’s identify, with the 2 voting choices listed as “sure” and “in fact.”
Delete the w in twitter?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022
When Musk realized final week that he’d been provided a seat on Twitter’s board, he tweeted that he was trying ahead to working with the staff “to make important enhancements to Twitter,” although how a lot affect he’ll actually have stays to be seen.
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