“I am thrilled to announce that we are welcoming Elon to our board of directors! Through conversations with Elon over the past few weeks, it has become clear to us that would bring great value to our board“And also” he is at the same time our great supporter and a fierce critic, which is exactly what we need to make us stronger in the long run “, which in about ten minutes the same Musk replied with a “I’m looking forward to working with Parag and the board to bring significant improvements to Twitter in the coming months ”.
This is the exchange of chirping courtesies publicly staged around 2.30 pm Italian time between the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, and the new majority shareholder of the company, who only yesterday he bought more than 9% of the share package.
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And not even 24 hours later, Musk showed what he’s made of and also what do you mean by “bringing significant improvements to Twitter in the coming months”: the first act in the transition from spectator to actor on the blue bird social network was to submit a survey to its over 80 million followers to ask for an opinion on the possibility of having an Edit Button for tweets. A way to edit tweets after posting them, something that has been talked about for over 15 years and that for those who Twitter founded it, like Jack Dorsey, it seems almost a sacrilege: “Probably, we’ll never do it”he told The Verge a couple of years ago.
Now all that remains is to see if the various “will bring great value to our board” and “will make us stronger in the long run” of Agrawal will only remain phrases of circumstance or will instead translate into concrete changes to the dynamics of the platform. Starting precisely with an Edit Button for tweets.
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What is certain is that, as before becoming a shareholder, Musk is capable of polarizing attention on Twitter: for a couple of days, his name has been in trend all over the world (including Italy), with many people, famous or not, who tag him, tease him, thank him but also criticize him and they insult him. And especially they create cartoons and memes about him: at the moment, the one that seems to be the most popular is the one you see above, interpreted as needed with a different animal or fictional character (we have chosen the one with the dog symbol of the Dogecoin).
There are also those who ask Musk if he can send him the bank details of his current account, whoever invites him to “buy the Ilva of Taranto and convert it into a super ecological Tesla production site “, who wonders if Musk’s arrival on the board will change something for Trump’s expulsion from social media and who would like to know if now his project of use chips to control the brain it will also affect people.
Among those who tweeted to greet him, even Dorsey himself: “I’m really happy that Elon joins the Twitter board: cares deeply about our world and Twitter’s role in it – he chirped – Parag and Elon are leaders at heart and will be an incredible team. “