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  • Pranksters show themselves as laid-off Twitter staff; Elon Musk reacts

    Pranksters show themselves as laid-off Twitter staff; Elon Musk reacts

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    On Friday,  pranksters fooled media outlets as news of the layoffs of Twitter’s former employees circulated online. During Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, some pranksters attempted to steal the spotlight. According to the New York Post, two pranksters dressed as laid-off Twitter employees and carried cardboard boxes outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco.

    Skepticism quickly spread on social media. One of the pranksters introduced himself as “Rahul Ligma,” a reference to a popular internet meme, and spoke to reporters while holding a copy of Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming.” The other introduced himself as “Daniel Johnson.”

    Outside Twitter’s office, the pranksters spoke with prominent US media outlets. According to Bloomberg, Twitter’s internal slack channels “lit up with suspicion” that it was a hoax. While the Verge confirmed that the duo were not ex-Twitter employees and had perpetrated a hoax.

    Elon Musk responded to the prankster incident with a witty tweet saying “Ligma Johnson had it coming.”

    Musk added, “Comedy is now legal on Twitter.”

    Twitter fired four executives on October 28, including CEO Parag Agrawal and legal executive Vijaya Gadde. “The bird is free,” billionaire Musk tweeted after completing Twitter’s $44 billion takeover.

    Musk met with engineers and advertising executives after arriving at the company’s San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday.

    With the caption “let that sink in,” Musk posted a video, on Twitter, of himself entering Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters while carrying a kitchen sink. 

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  • ‘He is trying to please people’: What made Elon Musk fire Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal

    ‘He is trying to please people’: What made Elon Musk fire Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal

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    The biggest and what is touted to be the messiest deal of our times, the Twitter-Musk deal, is in its final episode. The deal has reportedly been closed and the world’s richest man now owns Twitter. However, no official confirmation is out on it yet. 

    The reports of the deal closing also say that Twitter’s top brass, including its Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal, have been sacked by the incoming owner.

    Elon Musk and Parag Agrawal started off great, however, their relationship went south dramatically as the deal talks progressed.

    A series of texts that were disclosed at Delaware court revealed that the two were cordial and excited to start working with each other, bonding over ‘engineering’ and their liking for the microblogging site, the BBC reported.

    As the months went by and Musk started with his due diligence in Twitter’s spam/bot accounts and voiced them unabashedly on Twitter, the duo started falling apart. In fact it was a tweet from Musk that did not go well with Agrawal. 

    Musk on April 9 asked on his Twitter if the social media site was dying as “most of its top accounts rarely tweet.” 

    Before this tweet, Musk and Agrawal seemed to bond well. In fact, in March when it became clear that Musk intends to buy Twitter shares, Agrawal texted him saying that he would love to chat. Eventually, by March 31, the two met for a dinner in San Jose at an Airbnb near a farmyard. 

    Musk described the dinner as, “wins for the weirdest place I’ve had a meeting recently”. Agrawal too, thought it was “memorable.”

    On April 5, the decision to appoint Musk on board was made and announced.  Musk replied to Agrawal’s tweet saying how he was excited to work with Twitter and Agrawal, to make significant improvements. 

    Then came the April 9 tweet on the “most popular accounts” and if Twitter was “dying” that led to the downfall of this brimming bond between the two engineers.

    On April 11, Agrawal took Twitter to announce that Musk has decided not to join the board.

    Just three days after this, Twitter in an SEC filing, revealed Musk’s offer to buy the company for $44 billion. However, there were murmurs Twitter would resist the takeover.  

    In between, a mutual friend tried to come to the rescue. Jack Dorsey, former Twitter top boss, tried to patch up the relationship between Musk and Agrawal but didn’t succeed. 

    The next day, Jack Dorsey made another attempt to patch up the relationship between the two. He organised a call but it didn’t go well, the BBC reported. 

    Musk then texted Dorsey saying, “Parag is just moving far too slowly and trying to please people who will not be happy no matter what he does.”

    Dorsey replied: “At least it became clear that you can’t work together,” the BBC reported.

    Also read: CEO Parag Agrawal leaves Twitter office after getting fired, won’t return: Report

    Also read: ‘Good riddance’: Netizens celebrate Parag Agrawal’s ouster as Twitter CEO

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