After months of suspense and twists and turns, the takeover of Twitter is finally finalized. Elon Musk has already made big changes.
Elon Musk now owns Twitter, and things are changing fast. After tweeting, “The bird is free,” he formalized his takeover. First, he fired the old management, just arrived. But, it is far from being the only decision of the new Chief Twit.
Just three days after arriving, Elon Musk requested that logged out users are redirected to the Explore page which displays trending tweets and news. Just before this decision, the home page referred to the registration form when you were not connected.
Having a verified account will be chargeable
He also demanded major changes to Twitter Blue. Blue is the optional $4.99 per month subscription that unlocks additional features (but not available in France). This subscription Twitter Blue will become a more expensive subscription whose purpose is to additionally verify users. The information warns of an internal source of Twitter, who exchanged with The VergeTwitter plans to charge $19.99 for the new Twitter Blue subscription.
Under this new subscription, verified users would have 90 days to subscribe or lose their verification. Employees working on the project were told this Sunday, October 30 that they had to meet the November 7 deadline to launch the feature or they would be fired.
The whole verification process is being revamped right now
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 30, 2022
Will Elon Musk relaunch Vine?
Elon Musk also suggests, via a post on his Twitter account, thathe’s considering relaunching Vine. Vine was a social networking application dedicated to video, and launched long before TikTok.
Bring back Vine?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2022
The creation of a moderation council
At this time, Twitter has not changed its moderation policy. Nevertheless, Elon Musk announced the formation of a “Content Moderation Board”. He said the new body would bring together “ very different points of view and that no decisions on content policy or reinstatement of accounts will be made until the board meets.
According to Bloomberg, taken up by Numerama, Elon Musk would have made the first decision to cancel the lifelong exclusions from the social network. This will undoubtedly be the case for Donald Trump, who should be able to tweet in the coming hours. Regarding the long term, we are waiting to learn more about the X project already mentioned by Elon Musk.
His entourage to help him
Elon Musk relies on those around him to help him better understand what he has just bought. Elon Musk thus locked himself in an isolated area of Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco with a fleet of Teslas parked outside and new security guards to watch the entrance.
The Verge explains that dozens of Elon Musk’s acquaintances were referenced on Twitter employee lists, and consequently received professional emails and so on. There is his lawyer, the head of Neuralink, one of the directors of The Boring Company, the former product manager of Twitter and so on.
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