The platform could look a lot different if Musk is able to buy it. In his first public comments since the saga began, Musk talked about why he wants to buy the company and what changes he would want to bring about.
He said that it was important that people had both the reality and the perception that they were able to speak freely.
Any changes to people's tweets should be open-sourced, Musk said.
He said that the underlying code should be made available on GitHub so that users could inspect it.
Musk said that there should be very little moderation of content.
Those comments are not likely to be well received by the employees of the company.
Just hours after Musk made a $43 billion offer to buy Twitter, he made an appearance at TED. That offer was the culmination of a chaotic few days for Musk, during which he revealed that he had become the company's largest shareholder, was offered a seat on the company's board of directors, and was sued by shareholders.
It's not clear whether Musk will succeed in taking over the company. I am not sure that I will be able to acquire it. When asked if he had a plan B, he said that he did but didn't elaborate.
Musk confirmed what many had long suspected, that he was posting more or less stream of consciousness. I was on the toilet and I was like, oh, this is funny, and then I was like, you know?
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