News & Reviews:   Twitter CEO

In his quest to make Twitter an "Everything App", Elon Musk has continuously pushed for new features. These aren't features that improve on what Twitter already does, but aim to add new functionality to the platform. For instance, voice calls.

If you’re a Twitter user, then you’ve definitely noticed something different about the platform recently. In the latest of many changes since Elon Musk’s takeover, the iconic Twitter bluebird logo has now been changed to the Shiba Inu meme, the same being used as the cryptocurrency Dogecoin’s symbol.

Elon Musk has announced that he is planning to reduce his time at Twitter and eventually find a new leader to run his newly-acquired company. However, he clarified that this may “take some time” and that he will continue to run the social media company until it is in a strong place.

Following his ~RM207 billion takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk has laid out several changes to be implemented in the social media platform, including paid account verification. Moreover, given his position on free speech and censorship in the past, many are also expecting Musk to reinstate banned users on Twitter but according to the man himself, this may not happen for at least the next few weeks.

After a long and complicated saga, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk has finally completed the takeover of popular social media platform Twitter. The deal costs USD44 billion or ~RM207 billion and also saw the platform’s top executives leave the company.

The world’s richest person as well as the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk is now also the largest shareholder of the popular social media platform Twitter. Musk, who himself is a prolific Twitter user, now owns 9.2 percent of the company after purchasing a whopping ~RM12.1 billion in stock.

CNBC broke the news yesterday after spotting a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on the purchase. With the news of Musk’s Twitter stocks purchase, share prices of the social media company actually went up to more than 27 percent.

Twitter recently confirmed that Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter’s Twitter account got hacked on Friday by a little known but formerly useful Twitter feature called tweet by text. Apparently, Jack’s account started spewing hate and racist tweets, but it was due to the tweet by text feature without having to actually hack the Twitter account. This was done by spoofing the phone number or tricking Twitter into believing that the hackers were actually using Jack’s phone.