On Thursday, Elon Musk held a virtual town hall for Twitter employees to address their concerns, and by the end of the meeting, one topic stood out above the rest: can you truly run Twitter off the top of your head? Over the course of 60 or so freewheeling minutes, the world’s richest man fielded questions from Twitter’s roughly 8,000 employees on remote work, layoffs, content moderation, and other urgent issues. He often delivered a hodgepodge of phrase fragments to workers in search of concrete solutions. Will Twitter’s largely remote employees be allowed to work from home in the future? According to reports, Elon Musk claimed they’d be “great.” According to Mike Allen of the New York Times, it’s “far better if you’re physically on location.”
What kind of policies on content moderation will he support? He stated, “We should let people to speak whatever they want.” According to Insider’s Kali Hays and Hugh Langley, “it’s crucial to make Twitter as enticing as possible.” “Really, that means not displaying individuals content that is offensive to them.” Or, to put it another way, boring is not a positive thing. TikTok does an excellent job of keeping you entertained.” What do you think Twitter should become? He described it as a Chinese-style super app similar to WeChat. But, like TikTok, it’s also “entertaining.” But there are also payments and subscriptions. According to Musk, somewhere in this jumble of half-baked ideas is the recipe for Twitter to attract 1 billion users — around 770 million more than it has now.
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Musk said he’ll return for a second round of Q&A with Twitter staff, and I’m sure they’re looking forward to it. (“When he turned off his camera at the end of the Q&A, his avatar seemed to be two hands in the shape of the number 69, an apparent reference to a sex position,” Sheila Dang of Reuters noticed.) Employees I spoke with stated that they are doing their hardest to keep focused on their jobs. Musk is undoubtedly intent on reducing the deal’s cost. The future of Twitter is in jeopardy, and no one is more concerned than Elon Musk. He has his fancies, and they will suffice for the time being.
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