Adhering to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, the destiny of the social media system is now up in the air. 

The US$44 billion greenback acquisition offer closed at the conclude of Oct, after which Musk promptly fired Parag Agrawal, who had succeeded founder Jack Dorsey as Twitter main govt officer, as very well as chief money officer Ned Segal, lawful affairs and coverage main Vijaya Gadde, and common counsel Sean Edgett. Mass firings followed last week as Musk initiated expense-preserving steps (although reportedly some of the fired employees had been requested to return on the weekend).

Musk has been vocal about his plans for the platform, expressing he wants to market free of charge speech, “defeat” spam bots on Twitter, and make the algorithms that ascertain how content material is presented to its customers publicly available. 

A decentralized platform

In accordance to Luke Lintz, founder and main govt officer of HighKey Enterprises LLC, a general public relations firm that targets entrepreneurs and business house owners hunting to improve their digital manufacturers via social media, Twitter is heading to switch into a “decentralized” social media system.

“They will very a lot make it possible for nearly anything to go onto the platform. That is 100 per cent cost-free speech you’re gonna get. You’re gonna get all forms of conversations about any subject.”

Lintz extra that centralized social media platforms this sort of as Instagram have the power to delete a user’s profile, nonetheless, he thinks Twitter is heading into a