Although what precisely that imaginative and prescient is stays unclear.

Musk’s first order of enterprise was to fireside a number of prime execs, together with CEO Parag Agrawal, clearing home of these whom he clearly didn’t get together with all through the takeover course of. Amongst them was additionally the platform’s head of coverage Vijaya Gadde, who’s performed a key position in lots of Twitter’s largest moderation and security selections over the previous 10 years – it was Gadde, for instance, who made the decision to ban former US President Donald Trump from the app.

The lack of a lot expertise will harm the corporate, little question. However Musk, after all, has another view on what Twitter ought to be, in order that they have been unlikely to ever see eye-to-eye anyway. And the departing execs will take house thousands and thousands in payouts, which ought to soften the blow, earlier than they’re re-appointed at one other tech agency in comparable roles.

Those that gained’t be getting huge payouts, nevertheless, would be the lower-level workers that Musk additionally culls from the enterprise, as he seems to be to cut back prices so as to rationalize the app.

These cuts started on Friday afternoon, and it’s unclear what number of of Twitter’s 7,500 workers will finally be impacted.

Musk has long-touted workers cuts as a key aspect in his Twitter plan, and whereas he’s unlikely to take away 75% of workers, as had been reported just lately, it does seem that he’s going to make important strikes on this entrance, which is able to shake inside morale within the preliminary levels.

Musk’s second key order of enterprise, nevertheless, following these preliminary exec cuts, was to take Twitter non-public.

As reported by The New York Instances:

“As a part of shopping for Twitter, Mr. Musk is merging the social media firm with X Holdings, a company entity that he established in Delaware to deal with the deal. X is shopping for out all of Twitter’s inventory and can management the service, and Mr. Musk will management the holding firm. Twitter will likely be delisted from the New York Inventory Trade and its shares will not commerce on public markets as of Nov. 8, in accordance with a securities submitting.”

Thus, Twitter will not be a listed entity, and can not have to supply efficiency updates, so we gained’t know precisely what number of customers Twitter has, how its newest subscription instruments are performing, how its prices and bills are rising. A few of these particulars will nonetheless be accessible, however they gained’t be formally reported each quarter, which is able to scale back perception into the Musk Period on the app.

De-listing may even see the dissolution of Twitter’s present board of administrators, with Musk to nominate a brand new board at some stage. Who he appoints right here may additionally level to his future plans, which, once more, stay comparatively obscure, exterior of some key hints.

To recap, Musk has stated, or not less than implied, that his priorities will likely be:

• Eliminating bots
• Increasing the foundations round what customers can say within the app (throughout the legislation)
• Open sourcing feed algorithms
• Rising paying subscribers

Every of those components may have variable impacts, although extra just lately, Musk has additionally sought to reassure advertisers that there gained’t be any main modifications to how they function, as a method to maintain that earnings stream flowing.

However finally, Musk desires to cut back the platform’s reliance on adverts, and make subscriptions an even bigger a part of Twitter’s earnings.

In one trade with Twitter workers this week, Musk reiterated his plan to spice up subscription consumption to 50% of the platform’s income, which he additionally views as a possible answer to the app’s bot downside.

Musk has floated this idea prior to now, that by decreasing the worth of Twitter’s subscription providing Twitter Blue to $2 monthly, and giving each paying subscriber a blue checkmark (or comparable marker), that might make it much less tenable for bot corporations to maintain making extra profiles, as a result of finally, all the actual human accounts can be verified, making the bots simpler to identify.

However as with nearly all the pieces that he says, Musk has switched his considering on this too:

Possibly, then, Musk merely plans to begin charging companies to make use of the app – although that may be a tough promote if, as anticipated, he begins bringing again beforehand banned customers, like Trump, with a variety of advertisers already planning to boycott the app if that occurs.

It’s inconceivable to know the route that Musk will take issues, as a result of I don’t assume he is aware of, whereas Musk habitually revises his considering, then denies that he ever prompt the rest.

In any occasion, we’ll probably have to attend for a little bit bit longer to see what’s coming, as a result of Twitter has paused all website modifications until November 1st because of the Musk takeover, and the potential for rogue workers to make modifications on the way in which out the door.

However some workers are already being let go, and Musk may reinstate any person at any time. Proper now, Musk says that he’s ‘digging into’ Twitter’s bans and shadowbans, to get the underside of what’s occurring on this entrance.

After that, no person is aware of what’s going to come subsequent for the app.