2023-10-27 11:19:54
By Chloé Woitier
Published yesterday at 7:15 p.m., Updated 2 hours ago
Elon Musk took control of the social network Twitter, which he renamed X, on October 27, 2022. Romain Doucelin/Romain Doucelin / Hans Lucas via
STORY – One year after its takeover by the billionaire, the social network, renamed X, is still standing. But his image is damaged.
«The bird is released.» It is through this message published on October 27, 2022 that Elon Musk informed the world of his takeover of the social network Twitter… 24 hours in advance of the agreed date. The entrepreneur could not help but orchestrate this dramatic move to overtake the management of the company. The $44 billion had barely been transferred when he fired the director of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, for serious misconduct. The engineer does not have time to send his resignation letter before security guards escort him out of the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. A humiliation desired by Elon Musk.
This brutality is only a foretaste of the storm that will hit the social network. In the two months that followed, 6,500 of the 8,000 employees were fired for incompetence or disloyalty. Elon Musk is doing away with the benevolent corporate culture of Twitter, where the employee kings were pampered, in favor of his “hardcore” policy in force at Tesla and…
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