'Let the good times roll': billionaire Elon Musk tweets on first morning as new Twitter boss

Let the good times roll billionaire Elon Musk tweeted on Friday hours after he completed his acquisition of Twitter for a whopping USD 44 billion and started off as the social media giants new owner by firing its top executives including CEO Parag AgrawalThe bird is freed Musk had tweeted on Friday after completing the takeover of Twitter and firing the social media giants four top executives including Agrawal legal executive Vijaya Gadde Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and General Counsel Sean EdgettSpoiler Alert Let the good times roll Musk 51 tweeted early Friday morning after ending Thursday night with his acquisition of TwitterI will be digging in more today Musk said in reply to a tweet by a user called Catturd who tweeted that he will be tweeting a message every day to see if anything changes As of now Im still Shadowbanned ghostbanned searchbanned and Twitter removed 1200 followers today as usual Nothing has changed Ill report again tomorrowMusk a selfstyled free speech absolutist has been critical of Twitters management and its moderation policiesAlso read Elon Musks Twitter takeover Twitterati in India divided many hail developmentAt least one of the executives who was fired was escorted out of Twitters office a report in the New York Times reportedThe deals closing removes a cloud of uncertainty that has hung over Twitters business employees and shareholders for much of the year the CNN commentedAfter initially agreeing to buy the company in April Musk spent months attempting to get out of the deal first citing concerns about the number of bots on the platform and later allegations raised by a company whistleblowerAgrawal 38 was appointed Twitter CEO in November last year after the social media sites cofounder Jack Dorsey had stepped downAn IIT Bombay and Stanford alumnus Agrawal had joined Twitter over a decade ago when there were fewer than 1000 employees at the companyAgrawal who was appointed Twitters chief executive last year had clashed with Musk publicly and privately in recent months about the takeover the NYT report saidMusk also singled out Gadde 48 criticising her for her role in content moderation decisions at the company it addedAs the Twitter account of former US President Donald Trump was permanently suspended in January last year Hyderabadborn Gadde was at the forefront of this dramatic decision undertaken within days of the attempted insurrection by proTrump supporters at the US CapitolTwitter cofounder Biz Stone thanked Agrawal Segal and Gadde for their massive contribution to the businessThank you to paraga vijaya and nedsegal for the collective contribution to Twitter Massive talents all and beautiful humans each Stone tweetedMusk arrived at the companys headquarters in San Francisco on Wednesday and had been meeting with engineers and advertising executivesMusk also updated his Twitter description to Chief TwitHe has promised to transform Twitter by loosening the services content moderation rules making its algorithm more transparent and nurturing subscription businesses as well as laying off employeesIn April Twitter accepted Musks proposal to buy the social media service and take it privateHowever Musk soon began sowing doubt about his intentions to follow through with the agreement alleging that the company failed to adequately disclose the number of spam and fake accounts on the serviceWhen Musk said he was terminating the deal Twitter sued the billionaire alleging he refuses to honour his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interestsEarlier in October Musk said he wanted to pursue his acquisition of Twitter at the original price of USD 5420 a share if the social messaging service dropped its litigationTwitters lawyers said that the Tesla CEOs proposal is an invitation to further mischief and delayA Delaware Chancery Court judge eventually ruled that Musk had until October 28 to cement the Twitter deal or head to trialOn Thursday Musk wrote a message to reassure advertisers that social messaging services wouldnt devolve into a freeforall hellscape where anything can be said with no consequencesThe reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner without resorting to violence Musk said in the messageThere is currently great danger that social media will splinter into farright wing and far leftwing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our societyThe New York Stock Exchange said on Friday that trading in Twitters shares had been suspending giving the reason as merger effectiveMusks plans for boosting Twitters value could involve cutting down its workforce something hes hinted at before Previous reporting suggested that hed planned to cut 75 per cent of staff although he is said to have told Twitter staff this week thats not the case CNN reportedThis story has 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