Elon Musk, who runs four other companies, will now be Twitter CEO - Reuters

Oct 31 (Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) brag Elon Musk said connected Monday helium volition service arsenic main enforcement of Twitter, the societal media institution helium conscionable bought for $44 billion, a determination that Wall Street analysts person said could stretch the billionaire thin.

Musk, who besides runs rocket institution SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink and tunneling steadfast the Boring Company, fired Twitter's erstwhile chief Parag Agrawal and different apical institution officials past week, and has projected revisions to the platform's idiosyncratic verification process, which has been escaped until now.

Responding to a tweet from writer Stephen King that helium would not beryllium consenting to wage $20 a period to support the verified badge connected Twitter, Musk replied: "How astir $8?"

The billionaire said that introducing a terms was the lone mode to decision trolls and bots connected the level and that Twitter could not wholly trust connected advertisers to wage its bills.

Musk announced his Twitter CEO relation successful a securities filing. In another filing connected Monday, Musk revealed that helium became the sole manager of Twitter arsenic a effect of the takeover.

Musk had antecedently changed his Twitter bio to "Chief Twit" successful an allusion to his planned move. Twitter connected Monday declined to remark connected however agelong Musk mightiness stay CEO oregon name idiosyncratic else.

"The pursuing persons, who were directors of Twitter anterior to the effectual clip of the merger, are nary longer directors of Twitter: Bret Taylor, Parag Agrawal, Omid Kordestani, David Rosenblatt, Martha Lane Fox, Patrick Pichette, Egon Durban, Fei-Fei Li and Mimi Alemayehou," Musk said successful the filing.

Shortly afterward, Musk tweeted that the determination to dissolve the committee "is conscionable temporary," without elaborating.

Replying to a tweeted question connected what was "most messed up astatine Twitter", Musk tweeted connected Sunday that "there look to beryllium 10 radical "managing" for each 1 idiosyncratic coding."

On Monday, Nick Caldwell, a wide manager astatine Twitter's Core Technologies indicated connected his Twitter bio that helium was nary longer with the company. Caldwell and Twitter did not respond to Reuters' petition for remark extracurricular regular concern hours.

Since the takeover, which concluded past week, Musk has moved rapidly to enactment his stamp connected Twitter, which helium had ridiculed for months for being dilatory to present merchandise changes oregon instrumentality down spam accounts. work much

His teams began gathering with immoderate employees to analyse Twitter's bundle codification and recognize however aspects of the level worked, according to 2 sources acquainted with the matter. work much

Some unit who spoke with Reuters said they had received small connection from Musk oregon different leaders and were utilizing quality reports to portion unneurotic what was happening astatine the company.

Tesla's banal has mislaid a 3rd of its worth since Musk made an connection to bargain Twitter successful April, compared with a 12% diminution successful the benchmark S&P 500 scale (.SPX) successful the aforesaid period.

Reporting by Chavi Mehta successful Bengaluru, Sheila Dang successful Dallas and Sayantani Ghosh successful San Francisco; Additional reporting by Shivani Tanna and Mrinmay Dey successful Bengaluru; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Stephen Coates

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