✔️ 2022-04-26 13:36:00 – Paris/France.
The reactions to Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter are overwhelming, and it's fair to say that the general tone is not one of wholehearted support. Even Twitter itself is taking precautions against potential employee backlash.
But the purchase has at least one fan: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey…
In a Twitter thread, Dorsey wrote:
I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest we have to a global conscience.
The idea and the service are all that matters to me, and I will do whatever it takes to protect both. Twitter as a business has always been my only problem and biggest regret. He belonged to Wall Street and the advertising model. Taking it back to Wall Street is the right first step.
In principle, I don't think anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at the protocol level, not a business. Solving the problem of being a business though, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust its mission to expand the light of consciousness.
Elon's goal of creating a "maximally trusted and broadly inclusive" platform is the right one. This is also @paraga's goal, and why I chose it. Thank you both for getting the company out of an impossible situation. This is the right path… I believe it with all my heart.
I'm so glad Twitter will continue to serve the public conversation. Around the world, and in the stars!
Others responded by testing Musk's free speech philosophy (including swearing). Even Jeff Bezos decided to play.
(Posted from inside his glass house – and later backtracked.)
Platform said employees of Twitter's Slack chat rooms were worried and upset.
A thread, in which an employee good-naturedly asked if anyone was excited about the prospect of working for Musk, drew dozens of responses, many of them pretty ugly […]
After the announcement, sentiment on Slack's public channels remained largely worried and negative, employees told me. "I was a bit surprised at how much people seemed to give up," one told me. " Huge disappointment. »
The New York Times echoes this.
Employees said they fear Mr. Musk will undo years of work they've spent cleaning up toxic nooks on the platform, upend their stock compensation in the process of taking the company private and disrupt the culture of Twitter with its unpredictable and brusque management style. proclamations.
The award for Best Employee Reaction has to go to this guy:
Can someone just tell me if I'm rich or fired please
— Ned Miles (@nedmiles) April 25, 2022
Le NYT also says that the company was already having more difficulty recruiting staff to replace those who will leave, even before the purchase was confirmed.
Musk's campaign has also begun to undermine Twitter's attempts to recruit new employees, according to internal documents outlining the company's recruiting efforts seen by The Times. Potential hires have expressed skepticism about Mr. Musk's plans to transform Twitter and change its content moderation, according to those documents.
Commit's Andrew Tarantola didn't mince words.
I dread the effects this sale will have, not just for Twitter itself, but for the internet at large. The destabilizing effects of the amplification of social media on societal and democratic norms have been well studied since the 2016 election. What is not yet fully understood is what happens when we cede control of this mechanism to the richest offender in the world. As such, my advice to you is the same wise words Samuel L Jackson had for us in Jurassic Park: hang on to your butts.
The Guardian's Arwa Mahdawi was one of many to predict Trump's return to the platform, no matter what the man may claim.
You know what else Musk is likely to do? Let Donald Trump return to Twitter. Trump insisted on Monday that he had absolutely no interest in joining Twitter, but it's hard to believe. The former president's new social network, Truth Social, has been a complete disaster and its relevance has plummeted since its launch on Twitter. If Trump has any hope of making a political comeback, then Musk is his best bet.
To finish, Bloomberg reports that even Twitter itself is worried about the reaction of its own employees.
Twitter has locked down changes to its social media platform until Friday after accepting a $44 billion offer from billionaire Elon Musk, making it harder for employees to make unauthorized changes, according to people familiar with the matter.
For now, Twitter will not allow product updates unless they are business critical, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the situation is private.
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