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Title: Elon Musk floated the idea of turning Twitter's San Francisco headquarters into a homeless shelter
Source: [None]
URL Source: https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-floated-idea-turning-101119878.html
Published: Apr 10, 2022
Author: staff
Post Date: 2022-04-10 09:22:15 by Ada
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Views: 216
Comments: 12

He polled his Twitter followers about the matter on Sunday. Most voted in favour.

Musk recently became Twitter's largest shareholder after amassing a 9.2% stake in the company.

Elon Musk has floated the idea of turning Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco into a homeless shelter, saying "no one shows up anyway" at the office.

On Sunday, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who recently became Twitter's largest shareholder, posed the question to his Twitter followers in a poll.

Six hours after Musk posted the poll, an overwhelming majority of users had voted in favour of repurposing Twitter's HQ as he suggested: some 91% of the 912,867 votes were cast for "Y."

Musk appeared to be taking aim at Twitter's remote-work policy. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told employees they could work from home indefinitely, even after the pandemic ended.

San Francisco, a wealthy city that is home to several prominent tech companies, has a large population of homeless people. In 2020, there were an estimated 5,200 unsheltered homeless people on San Francisco's streets.

Hours after posting his poll on Twitter's HQ, Musk posted another, this time asking his followers whether they wanted to "delete the w in twitter." The only possible answers to the poll were "Yes" or "Of course."

It emerged last week that Musk had amassed a 9.2% stake in Twitter, making him the company's largest shareholder. Twitter said later that Musk had been appointed to its board.

Musk often polls his followers, sometimes posing serious questions, sometimes not. In recent weeks, he's asked his followers whether or not they believe Twitter "rigorously adheres" to free speech, and whether or not they'd like to be able to edit their tweets.

On Thursday, Musk posted a photo of himself apparently smoking a joint, with the caption: "Twitter's next board meeting is gonna be lit."

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

Gotta say, Musk is pretty cool. I know he has his detractors, some here on 4um, but he seems to be proving himself in a good light.

Pinguinite  posted on  2022-04-10   11:28:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#2. To: Pinguinite, 4um (#1)

www.zerohedge.com/markets...ficially-trolling-twitter

Elon Musk Is Officially Trolling Twitter

Now that Elon Musk has taken a nearly 10% stake in Twitter and has become a board member, he has spent his days mostly trolling the social media site...on Twitter.

But if you look closely, Musk's "trolling" also appears to be moving the ball for positive change forward at the social media company - Musk is a force large enough that Twitter must pay attention to him; something that the social media site has never had to deal with in the past (although it certainly has needed it).

Musk's comments about Twitter over the last 24 to 48 hours have ranged from borderline ridiculous to honest attempts at improving the company. Either way, it appears like Musk is just trolling, too. For example, on Sunday morning, Musk put up a poll asking whether or not he should "Delete the 'w' in Twitter", which would make the social media app's name "Titter":

During the weekend, Musk fired several shots across the bow at Twitter, even embracing a conversation with "The Big Short" protagonist Michael Burry, who has been famously critical of Tesla, in order to join forces against Twitter.

When Burry complained that his blue check mark had been removed after putting up a post about President Biden, Hunter Biden and stating that Elon Musk buying enough shares to control Twitter would be "good for America", Musk responded in jest:

"You will get it back, even though you shorted Tesla, you bastard"

On Saturday, Musk posted a Twitter poll that asked whether or not he should convert Twitter's San Francisco headquarters into a homeless shelter since "no one shows up anyway":

Musk had also Tweeted out numerous random suggestions for the social media site, in addition to lobbing critiques at it, over the weekend.

"Everyone who signs up for Twitter Blue (ie pays $3/month) should get an authentication checkmark," Musk wrote on Saturday. "Price should probably be ~$2/month, but paid 12 months up front & account doesn’t get checkmark for 60 days (watch for CC chargebacks) & suspended with no refund if used for scam/spam," he continued, Tweeting directly at Twitter's CEO.

That Tweet followed scores of other Tweets talking about ways to implement an edit feature.

There was uncharacteristic radiosilence out of Twitter early last week following the news that Elon Musk had accumulated his stake with the clear intention of making substantive content changes in what has become a platform ruled by snowflakes, for snowflakes.

"Looking forward to working with Parag & Twitter board to make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!" Musk wrote on April 5.

We're looking forward to it too, Elon.

Esso  posted on  2022-04-10 11:37:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Pinguinite, Dakmar, 4um (#1)

Gotta say, Musk is pretty cool. I know he has his detractors, some here on 4um, but he seems to be proving himself in a good light.

Musk is a flake, it's impossible to tell what he's up to. Him and Dakkie would be fun to put in a cage together.

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