Topic: Elon Musk Becomes Owner Of Twitter, Immediately Fires CEO And CFO - page 3. (Read 614 times)

That's dope and badass. Well, he's now the new boss and owner and he can do whatever he wants, be it with operations, employees and as in everything from the management. With all of those political issues and there's a very big chance that he's building it up for the next election.
But the biggest one are those contents and tweets that are made about woke's political agenda. I've seen folks that are happy with his taking over and that issue is about to be solved by him and Twitter is going to be back on its form like it's for everyone and freedom.

Like I said, a mountain has only one forest lord, they won't care who will be unemployed and who will be in crisis, they will focus on consolidating power and keeping only those who obey surname. And I believe Elon's Twitter acquisition has something to do with US politics and not simply Elon's hobby or business. Coincidentally, the deal was finalized before the upcoming US midterm elections. US politics is one of the harshest in the world, riots, fraud...

Elon didn't sack the CEO and CFO because of his personal interest or the interest of his business alone. He did that to have the resounding support of the public or to make us believe he came with new ideology to correct the wrong. There is no how we would have believed Elon's efforts if he retained the the two big officers.
As they were fired, the whole public has gotten some sense of change and the birth of a new twitter.
Elon is among the smartest humans I have read about.

The reason behind the firing of the CEO and CFO is valid if that is true.  They were given a chance to retain their position but they got busted due to their poor knowledge about the operation and the misinformation.  It is also possible that Tesla CEO wanted to restructure the management of Twitter according to his needs.  Finding people on top to be incompetent, firing and replacing them with better people is the right move.


This may be harsh but sometimes it is unavoidable especially when there is a new owner of the company.  All the next course of a company is decided by the owner and the owner finds that 75% of the employee is just an extra bagage so in order to minimize the expenses of the company, the new owner decided to let them go.

The expulsion of 75 percent of the company's employees means the expulsion of thousands of workers who will find themselves without work, and the company will have to pay compensation to them in the millions of dollars. This process will create a real crisis, including the disruption of many services on the platform until the underemployment is compensated.
Originally, they did not enter into the platform's policies, which are controlled by a limited number of the board of directors.

There is news confirming that Elon Musk will reopen Trump's account and lift the ban. Perhaps Musk is waiting for the right time to do this, because this will put him in the face of the US authorities, who want to completely remove Trump from political life.

Its his company now and he can do whatever he wants.If he do sees that he had been disappointed on what they had done in the past then pretty sure that you would really be having that revenge
once you do completely own the company.He wont really be that dumb on firing those top officers of Twitter if they havent done something wrong and now Elon is the owner now then he
does have the rights on what to do and its none of our business.Elon knows on how to run off a business and he would hire and fire on everyone he do likes.
He's the boss and people would be just following on what had been ordered.

It seems that Musk has seriously decided to change the system, changing the rules for banned accounts and getting rid of bots. The intrigue remains the blocked account of Donald Trump, whether he will be amnestied, we will see soon. However, it will be difficult for Musk to achieve freedom of speech as long as the EU requires all content to remain strictly moderated.

We here on the forum making arguments over Elon Musk and his terminations, meanwhile those guys got fired but were compensated with 100 million dollars. 

They be like what the hell, retirements came in real early. Who cares if they were fired or not I was able to tweet anyways. Twitter has no more function than that.

That’s big cream layer up there and big thick base down there, better skip to the good part and keep tweeting.

Well am not sure how typical that is, how many times have you seen a multi-billon company have a new owner and the CEO and CFO got fired immidiately. No doubt there will be some new changes of staffs and the over operations but not from the top most seats. I bet if things were moving in the right direction, this will not even be up for discussion.

I'm trying to understand why people are surprised by this.  Typically when ownership changes, leadership is replaced, so nothing new here.  Perhaps some animosity with them being escorted out by security, maybe.

Expulsion of old employees is nothing new, most of it happens in all companies and even in government departments. A mountain should have only one king and his followers, he doesn't need his opponents to stay there.


I also read this news, former president Trump congratulated Elon and twitter found the real leader. It has been reported that Elon will restore Trump's account but he has not confirmed whether he will return to twitter, as he is also running a private social network called truth. Twitter is considered the largest and most popular social network in the US, with this if the possibility of Mr. Trump returning to run for president, things will become very interesting.

I am pretty sure Parag is happy that he was let go because he has a $50 million dollar severance package. Pretty much he came out ahead. Especially if it wasn’t for Elon buying Twitter it would be worth less than $20 a share.

Why he fired them? Who knows. Most likely because it seems badly run. Look at all the political mess. And look at all the spam bots. Basically when certain keywords are mentioned the bots are going at it like crazy.

Elon Musk certainly didn't act rashly, Elon himself must have had strong reasons and evidence about the person who was fired.

because so far Twitter has lost competitiveness from other digital platforms, surely behind the delayed progress of Twitter is the result of its workers.

Twitter is ran by political radicals that are inflicting their own personal politics, which is out of tune with most people, and imposing it on a platform that has too much control on U.S. elections. He could not have fired them sooner. Watching the meltdown and protest this garnered from the U.S. press was amusing. It's as if the monopoly they've held on big tech having come crashing down is somehow going to destroy the democratic institution that is the United States republic. How hyperbolic. When Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, it was celebrated by the same folks who disavowed Elon's Twitter takeover.

I don't think centralized social media platforms should be used to drive discussion and ultimately decide elections, nor do I think a billionaire like Elon should be put in charge of such a powerful tool. But, I'm willing to make exception given who Musk's predecessors. He can't be any worse, even if he tried.

Well said, the political influence can be much experienced. Even in my country every party have its own IT wing to support the growth of the party. In some means controversy arose on the fired CEO is in favour of the ruling party. He holds the control and doesn't let the tweets made by the opposing party. The last election win itself connected with the social media campaign and people are continuously insisted about some hype and not the real governance. With the acquiring everything will change.

Yes, a thousand times yes--and even though I'm not familiar with who the top execs are at Twitter, I'd be willing to wager nearly all of them should go.  This takeover should be a house cleaning, and it's pretty hard to run a company the way you want it when there are still employees (especially if they have power/influence) who are loyal to the old way of doing things.  Musk must know that, so perhaps there are more departures forthcoming.

And fuck 'em all anyway.  Twitter has become way more influential in politics than it ever should have, and the layer of censorship that leans hard left on top of their power has made them fucking dangerous to America and people who want to hold onto the tiny slivers of freedom we still enjoy.

We'll see what Musk does; it should be interesting if nothing else.

He is right to fire them, if that is what will bring him the calm of spirit and perspective he hopes to obtain as the new owner. For security reasons too, he made the best decision, after all, let's not pretend to ignore the case he just had.
It won't take him long to replace them with his own persons of whom he believes he has more control over.
Let's hope that his new interest in Twitter, i.e., from space X and Tesla to social media won't have a resounding black lash anytime in the future and hope it ain't a long thought out ploy.

It is quite understandable. These three were the ones that sued Elon as soon as he wanted to get out of the buy-out. I mean dude just wanted to give up and didn't like it, and I really dislike Elon but if Elon decides not to buy your company then you should be happy about it. If you are forcing him to buy it, and sue him for giving up, then when he takes over the company it would be his first job to fire you.

On top of that, the "censorship" deal will be a very hard one, "freedom of speech" propaganda that he uses allows people to tell each other not just "mean" stuff to "hurt their feelings" but literally cultural breaking stuff. If you tell a black person in america to "shut up n...r" then thats not just freedom of speech, thats literally racism, and if you allow millions to do that at the same time? Well thats culture moving stuff right there.

Imagine a scenario where Elon owned Twitter when Obama was candidate, and he allowed everyone to call him the N word on twitter, nothing against freedom of speech, you wouldn't be jailed, so imagine millions doing that. How would any black person feel? Wouldn't that divide the nation and prevent progress and betterment of the nation as a whole when you have people fighting inward?

This is going to blow up in everyones faces, there is no doubt about that, its going to be very very dangerous. This isn't about just some SJW person going "I wanted them to call me she but they called me he!!! ban them!!" no, this is about trump saying "they stole the election, do something!" and then people rushing into the capitol and one of them died and 4 policemen were beaten, THATS what twitter wanted to prevent, thats the type of thing we are scared of (trump was banned already by that time btw, this was an example).

I don't think we're in any position to decide if it's right or wrong, or criticize his decision. The company is now his and he alone decides what is right and what is wrong for it.  but one thing I know is whenever ownership of a company a business is transferred to another person, the lay off of some staffs in some key positions is usually expected. It is usually a strategic decision to bring people that you're certain will be loyal to you and will also share in your vision for the company.

Well that's the last thing you want from a company anyway, executives that are trying to hide information and downplaying problems here and there for the sale to not push through. I don't think people will stop using Twitter now that Elon is the owner, and if anything it might even promote the use of the site because between the two social media giants, Elon is somehow 'lenient' and 'cool' with lots of topics being thrown around (I still don't like the guy).