What is obvious is that Musk goes to make drastic adjustments at some stage, and that he’s already pushing Twitter employees to remain on process, and get issues transferring rapidly.

Right here’s a fast round-up of the assorted issues which will or might not be occurring at Twitter proper now:

Subscriptions replace

As we’ve already lined, Musk is concentrated on re-vamping Twitter subscription providing, as he pushes to generate 50% of Twitter’s income consumption from subscribers, decreasing the app’s reliance on adverts.

Musk is reportedly contemplating:

• Charging customers for verification ticks (and charging verified customers to maintain theirs)
• Charging companies to make use of the platform
• Enhancing publicity for verified profiles to entice sign-ups
• Including new verification choices for ‘actual people’

It’s tough to know which of those will probably be examined – and I’m undecided Musk himself is aware of as but – however you’ll be able to count on to see Twitter make some massive strikes quickly, on its subscription choices.

Which is sensible. If Twitter can present extra attractive, attention-grabbing subscription packages, then a major proportion of its person base seemingly pays. The issue, at current, appears to be that Musk is beneath the impression that customers will merely pay to maintain utilizing the app that they’ve all the time been in a position to make use of at no cost, or that individuals worth the blue tick sufficient to pay a premium for it.

I’m undecided both of these items is true, although I do suppose that if Musk have been to implement a small charge, as a way to entry the app, many individuals would take into account paying merely to take care of their networks within the app.

I believe there’s a method to make this occur, however one of the best avenue could be to offer important enhancements to its subscription choices, versus pushing individuals to pay for issues that they will already entry.

Once more, I’m undecided Musk and his workforce are offered on what method to take right here, however it’s, seemingly, a spotlight.

Employees reductions

Regardless of Musk denying reviews that he would look to chop 75% of Twitter’s employees straight up, he’s certainly seeking to make important headcount reductions, and rapidly, as a part of price rationalization on the firm.

The Washington Submit has reported that Musk will cull a minimum of 25% of Twitter’s present roles in a short time, earlier than assessing what will probably be required to maintain issues progressing, and maintain the platform working within the interim.

Musk has already minimize a number of senior execs, and he’s now reportedly analyzing Twitter’s gross sales, product, engineering and authorized departments, with the primary set of main cuts set to get underway quickly.

There’s no manner of realizing what sort of affect this might have on the app, however Musk appears assured that his harder administration fashion can guarantee optimum productiveness out of fewer individuals on the bottom.

The return of Vine?

This looks as if a troll, however…

Elon is seemingly a minimum of contemplating bringing Vine again from the useless, as a way to straight compete with TikTok.

Which gained’t work. TikTok is best at displaying individuals the content material they need to see than Vine ever was, and Twitter’s personal advice algorithms and processes are nowhere near TikTok on this respect.

This looks as if an thought that may get individuals hyped – and I’ve little doubt {that a} re-released Vine app would see a heap of obtain momentum in its first month or so of existence. However I believe that this may fade fairly fast, and I don’t see any manner that Vine can by some means be improved to compete with, and even beat, TikTok.

CFIUS evaluate of Twitter deal

On one other entrance, the Musk/Twitter deal could possibly be set to come back beneath extra scrutiny, with US Senator Chris Murphy calling on the Committee on International Funding (CFIUS) to analyze the function that Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has performed in funding Musk’s Twitter acquisition, and what meaning for the corporate transferring ahead.

Kingdom Holding Firm, together with the personal workplace of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, have confirmed that they’ll keep possession of their Twitter shares following Musk’s takeover on the app, making them collectively the app’s second-largest buyers.

Musk additionally sourced funding from Qatar Holding, and together, the elevated funding by highly effective international entities may elevate questions across the potential affect they might maintain over Twitter administration.

It appears unlikely that the deal could possibly be reversed because of this, however a CFIUS evaluate may pressure these buyers out, which may additional complicate issues for Musk and Co.

It’s been a busy few days for Musk, as he makes his new acquisition his core focus – and with billions in debt now driving on the app, it is sensible that Musk will need to transfer as rapidly as he can to get issues again on monitor.

Although it’s not clear how, precisely, Twitter will be re-directed onto a extra useful, extra worthwhile path, and it doesn’t appear, on the face of it, that Musk has a definitive plan in thoughts to make this occur both as but.  

However on the identical time, some adjustments are already occurring, with Musk renaming ‘Tremendous Follows’ to easily ‘Subscriptions’, and getting non- or logged-out customers redirected to the Discover web page of the app once they go to Twitter.com, versus the sign-in display screen.

These are small tweaks, however every was straight requested by Musk as a part of his preliminary push to reshape the platform in his imaginative and prescient. Musk has additionally appointed varied pals and Twitter consultants to assist him handle the transition, together with (reportedly) former Twitter product chief Kayvon Beykpour, and Andreesen Horowitz adviser Sriram Krishnan.

With a brains belief established, Musk will probably be banging out the main points of what comes subsequent in Twitter’s workplace this week – and primarily based on what we’ve seen so far, and on Musk’s historical past, you’ll be able to count on to see important adjustments quickly.