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Five Things Elon Musk Wants to Change About Twitter Right Away
He suggests the company was bloated, poorly run, unwelcoming to controversial speech and overrun with spam.
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Elon Musk is working to make his mark on Twitter Inc., days after assuming ownership of the service.
The world’s richest man has been reviewing the company’s code with help from Tesla Inc. engineers, while consulting with powerful friends he trusts to help him make important decisions about where to take the product.
So far, it turns out that making major changes to a 16-year-old product with about 7,000 employees is easier said than done. Here’s an overview of what Musk is noodling – and how it intersects with reality: