Insider: Musk moved his inner circle to Twitter.
Beijing, October 31 (Xinhua) after officially joining Twitter, Elon Musk (Elon Musk) did not waste time and immediately began to transform Twitter, relying on his inner circle outside Twitter.
Less than 24 hours after Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, he decided to change its home page, according to people familiar with the matter. According to his request, logged-out users will be redirected to Explore pages that display popular tweets and news stories when they visit Twitter.com. Previously, only a registration form was displayed when you did not log in to visit the Twitter home page, encouraging users to create an account to view tweets.
Musk's directive, which came into effect late Friday, required the participation of the vice president to lift Twitter's previous code freeze. During Musk's acquisition of Twitter, Twitter froze the code to prevent employees from making changes. In the past, such a decision would have been debated for weeks among Twitter teams. But now, this is Musk's new Twitter, and all it needs is an order. "this is definitely a way to make it clear that you [Musk] are now number one," said one former Twitter executive. "
At the same time, Musk is relying on his inner circle to help him better understand the company he just acquired. He has been hiding in an isolated area of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters, where many Tesla cars are parked outside and guarded by new security guards at the entrance. Dozens of people from his family office, other companies and social circles have been added to Twitter's employee directory and obtained the company's email address, according to information and internal communications revealed by employees.
These include Alex Spiro, Musk's personal lawyer, who will act as de facto general counsel for Twitter; his relative Andrew Musk, who works for brain-computer interface startup Neuralink; and Jehn Balajadia, chief operating officer of tunnel digging company The Boring Company. David Sacks, an influential political donor and member of the "PayPal Mafia"; Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist and an old friend of Musk; and Sriram Krishnan, a former head of product for Twitter who is now a venture capitalist at Anderson Horowitz and a friend of Musk.
In addition, Kevan Kayvon Beykpour, the former Twitter product director who was fired in May last year, also showed up in the Twitter office on Friday, sparking rumors of his possible return. However, Twitter's current product director Jay Sullivan (Jay Sullivan) is still at the company.
