In a surprising and unimaginable decision, Elon Musk decided to get out of twitter board, Even before he joins him!
Parag Agrawal, CEO of the popular communication platform, announced today, Monday, in a tweet on his account, that The owner of the famous Tesla companywho acquired the largest share of the company’s shares last week, decided not to join the board of directors.
He also published a letter or a brief note he addressed to the employees to inform them of this decision, explaining that this step was taken after several discussions between the members of the Council and Elon himself.
“for the company”
In addition, he indicated that the American billionaire was supposed to join this board on the ninth of this April, to contribute, like other members, to the development of the company, but he informed them on the same day that he decided not to participate. “I think this decision is in the interest of the company,” he wrote.
He concluded, stressing that this decision will undoubtedly cause an uproar in the coming days, but he called on the “blue bird” employees not to take that commotion into consideration, and focus on hard and diligent work to move forward with what is in the interest of Twitter and its progress!
Criticism and sarcasm did not subside
It is noteworthy that Musk, who is followed by about 81 million users, has since last Monday, after he became the owner of the largest share in the company, by buying 9.2 percent of its shares with an estimated value of about $ 2.9 billion, directed a series of criticisms of Twitter, and even mocked the platform as well.
But it’s not very useful. I turned it off. Also, there is this annoying “Reader” bar that now shows up below every tweet.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022
Perhaps his latest creation was at dawn today, as he directed his sharp arrows to the “Twitter Blue” subscription model specifically, criticizing the editing feature that it guarantees, and considering it completely useless.
He also criticized in the same tweet at dawn, “the tape that appears at the bottom of the tweet”, describing it as annoying!
This came, after he published a series of provocative tweets earlier, as the CEO of SpaceX called for the need for “Twitter Blue” to ban ads, and reduce its price of $2.99 per month.
The company is known to get nearly 90% of its revenue from .
He also suggested that he seriously consider accepting the dogecoin cryptocurrency as payment for the subscription service. He also said that subscribers have to get the blue sign of authentication.
Elon Musk (archive – Archyde.com)
In addition, he mocked the “empty” Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, proposing to turn it into a headquarters for the homeless!
While it was not known the purpose of those sarcastic tweets, launched by one of the world’s richest controversial people, and whether he was really seeking to make amendments to the platform, Twitter shares have risen since the announcement of owning the largest stake in it last week!
As for his decision to leave its board of directors, its consequences are still being tested, while many of Musk’s followers on Twitter wondered whether the feature of modifying the tweet he had previously suggested would remain after his departure?!