Elon Musk’s plan is to run Twitter off the top of his head - The Verge

After a long-awaited Q&A between Elon Musk and Twitter staff, Twitter employees say they’re skeptical about the future of the company under Musk’s leadership.

Elon Musk appeared at a virtual town hall for Twitter employees on Thursday to answer their questions, and by the end of the session one question loomed larger than most: can you really run Twitter off the top of your head?

Over 60 or so freewheeling minutes, the world’s richest man fielded queries over remote work, layoffs, content moderation, and other questions of pressing interest to Twitter’s roughly 8,000 employees. Time and again, he offered workers hungry for concrete answers a jumble of sentence fragments.

Will Twitter’s mostly remote workforce be able to continue working from home? Maybe, if they’re “excellent,” Musk said, according to Bloomberg’s live blog. But it’s “much better if you are on location physically,” he said, according to the New York Times’ Mike Isaac.

What sort of content moderation policies will he support? “We should allow people to say what they want,” he said. But “it’s important to make Twitter as attractive as possible,” Musk said, according to Insider’s Kali Hays and Hugh Langley. “Really, that means not showing people content that they would find offensive. Or even frankly, boring, is not good. TikTok does a great job of making sure you’re not bored.”

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/17/23172380/elon-musk-twitter-meeting-employee-reactions

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