Well, an unfair question to ask because Elon Musk is known to be an unconventional businessperson, and his ways are even more dramatic. While all of it may work for Tesla, but will it work for a platform like Twitter? We posed this to our Wizard with Words today. Here’s Dr Bhaskar Das in the November 1 edition of Das ka Dum. Read on…
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Q. It’s now been a few days since Elon Musk took over Twitter. Your expectations from the ‘Chief Twit’?
A. I am too small a fry to pen down my expectations from the ‘Chief Twit; and as a digital immigrant, I am not an avid social media user.
Having said that I must admit I was watching the developments at the Twitter takeover battle and being a fan of Elon Musk—I love his attitude and his business ventures—and find a lot of comparable stuff with Steve Job’s story of his return to Apple, albeit in different contexts and circumstances.
I may guess from Elon Musk’s tweets on how he wants to change Twitter. He seems to have a lofty plan like defeating spam bots on Twitter, prevent Twitter to becoming an echo chamber of hate, to be more inclusive and would support free speech etc. Now, the God is in execution and it might not be a smooth task, especially when one has to work in sync with multiple-nation regulatory frameworks. Musk must have an execution roadmap in his mind and the new lead driver (if I may suggest) of these goals Shriram Krishnan would certainly try to fructify Musk’s vision. Come to think of it, it’s too early to comment authentically on the subject. So, as they say, watch this space.