Elon Musk took Twitter private for $44 billion (about 317.68 billion yuan) on Thursday night, local time. After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk fired four executives including the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, general counsel and head of legal policy, trust and security.
According to Forbes and other media reports, on Elon Musk’s first day in charge of Twitter without any prior communication, silently appeared in the headquarters building, all employees look panicked, scheduled for the afternoon plenary session suddenly announced the cancellation of all people can only rely on external media reports to know what he was doing, there are people directly said “was terrified Some people said they were “terrified” and were afraid they would be “the next to be fired” (previously rumored to be laying off 75% of the staff).
But in fact, the first-morning Elon Musk took over Twitter, he simply purged the original four executives and then tweeted “This little blue bird is finally free” and received millions of likes and, of course, hate speech from some anonymous spammers.
However, on Friday morning, some engineers said they received a notice from Elon Musk’s intermediary that he wanted access to the latest software code they had written and that he wanted them to print it out and show it to him.
Bloomberg reported that others said Elon Musk sent Tesla engineers to review the Twitter code on the day he acquired it. The Twitter engineers were not allowed to change the code from midday that day to ensure that no changes to the product would occur until Elon Musk’s acquisition deal was fully confirmed.
Some engineers received a notice to print the code written in the past 30 to 60 days, and the person in charge said that Elon Musk would have a one-on-one meeting with them and might check their code on-site. But by noon, the engineers received a notice to “stop printing code immediately” and to put the already printed code into the shredder and just prepare the code on the computer.
In April this year, Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share (about 384 yuan), and on October 28, Elon Musk completed the deal to privatize Twitter for $44 billion (about 317.68 billion yuan).
