Elon Musk Does Some Expert Trolling of Twitter – Opinion

Since Elon Musk bought 9.2 percent of the shares of Twitter and has joined the board, he’s put the left in a panic over what he might do. Meanwhile, he’s excited the right with the thought that he might bring some more freedom of speech and fairness to the platform since he’s a free speech absolutist.

On Saturday night, Musk had everyone talking again with changes he was teasing on Twitter — and he even poked fun at Twitter itself.

In a survey, he said that he would turn Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco into an emergency shelter as nobody was coming to work. According to Twitter, people can work from anywhere they want.

More than 91 percent voted in Musk’s Twitter poll to turn it into a homeless shelter.

Since no one comes to Twitter SF HQ anyway, convert it into a homeless shelter

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022

Musk also had a poll, trolling a little more, about removing the “w” from Twitter. He didn’t have “no” as an option.

Twitter: Delete the @ symbol

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022

Then he also gave people some idea that he was interested in major changes in staff/management, responding “It’s exactly” to a comment about breaking them up.

Exactly

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022

He questioned if Twitter was dying, when you have big accounts that don’t engaged on the site, and some of the people are more engaged on other sites like Instagram.

Most of these “top” accounts tweet rarely and post very little content.

Twitter is dying https://t.co/lj9rRXfDHE

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2022

The proposal to Twitter included lowering the monthly subscription cost for Twitter Blue to $3 to $2 per month and banning advertisements. He also suggested that Twitter offer an option to pay with Dogecoin. He also noted that Blue had a 20-second modifiable feature — not exactly an edit feature that some want, but a little bit more than what regular Twitter has.

Each person who registers for Twitter blue (ie, $3/month), should receive an authentication checkmark

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022

Perhaps even the option of paying in Doge

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022

Blue has an already modifiable 20 second feature to modify tweets

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022

And no ads. If Twitter relies on advertising to survive, it will greatly increase the power of corporations to set policy.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2022

Musk explained that he didn’t want ads, because he didn’t want companies to be able to control the platform, “The power of corporations to dictate policy is greatly enhanced if Twitter depends on advertising money to survive.”

Earlier on Saturday, Musk dropped the Washington Post with one word when they attacked him in an article, saying that rich people shouldn’t be controlling media. That was hilarious — given that the WaPo is owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the second richest person in the world (behind Musk). Musk just laughed at their hypocrisy, “LMAO.”

It sounds like he may have some changes coming at Twitter, and that would be very welcome if he’s able to bring free speech back to the platform and less enforced, liberal political narrative. That sounds like the direction it’s heading, and you know that that’s going to drive the left bonkers if they can’t control everything.