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~ Musk says the "bird is freed" after $44 billion deal
~ Musk fires Twitter CEO, CFO, policy chief
~ Some Twitter users flag willingness to walk away
~ Poll shows employee job concerns
~ EU warns: "This bird will fly by our rules"
Elon Musk has taken ownership of Twitter Inc with brutal efficiency, firing top executives but providing little clarity over how he will achieve the ambitions he has outlined for the influential social media platform.
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/109246502934310577
Twitter stinks especially badly today.
One might say it has a very unpleasant Musk.
If Nazis rejoice when you take over a social media company, you're not a free speech hero!
Elon Musk: “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!”
Within hours of Elon’s statement, his fans filled Twitter with racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, homophobic, and transphobic hate speech.
Capt Smirk fired 1/2 his crew. He’s banning comics: shadow banning unverified users, boldly going where no unbridled ego has gone before.
Says, “$8/mo is the price of a latte.” True.
It’s also cheaper than a T-shirt saying “Rob me. I’m a gullible ass!”
BTW Mars mission? FAKE NEWS
Source: Actor Author and Artist Jim Carrey!
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/109310670396427192
Several top security and privacy executives resigned from Twitter on Thursday, citing the rapid rollout of new features without proper security reviews and Elon Musk’s order that employees return to the office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/10/twitter-security-resignations/
Today might be a good day to download your Twitter archive. Just in case.

Elon Musk, in his first address to Twitter employees since purchasing the company for $44 billion, said that bankruptcy was a possibility, according to a person familiar with the matter

Settings and privacy > Your account > Download an archive of your data > Request archive
Just to be clear, Twitter senior secured bank loans- the top of the capital stack- at $0.60 implies that Twitter- for which #elonmusk paid $44 billion - is now worth less than $8 billion.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has "continued his rash of brand unsafe actions — including amplifying conspiracy theories, unilaterally reinstating banned accounts such as that of former President Donald Trump, courting and engaging with far-right accounts, and instituting a haphazard verification scheme that allowed extremists and scammers to purchase a blue check."
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-top-advertisers-elon-musk?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com
Elon Musk’s abrupt suspension of several journalists who cover Twitter widens a growing rift between the social media site and media organizations that have used the platform to build their audiences.

Individual reporters with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other news agencies saw their accounts go dark Thursday.
https://wwwizzards.com/EMusk
Future Twitter plans - Attention: As of now they are rumors so they could be completely right, a bit off, or even just an idea that was floating around.
Rumored new Twitter rules:
- 200 DM's limit per day (group chats included)
- 20 tweets limit per day (includes retweets, quote tweets and replies)
- 4 photos or 1 video per day (media tweets are counted separately from the general tweets)
Twitter Blue users supposed to have no limits
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/109836744691439853