Elon Musk could fundamentally rebuild Twitter

san francisco The news caused Twitter’s share price to rise rapidly on Monday: Tesla boss Elon Musk has acquired almost a tenth of the shares in the short message service, according to a mandatory announcement to the stock exchange. Late in the evening, the billionaire promptly got involved in the day-to-day business of Twitter. He called on his followers to vote on whether a button for subsequently changing messages should be introduced on the platform in the future.

Of the 2.3 million followers who had taken part in the survey by Tuesday morning, almost three quarters voted for an editing function. There have been corresponding demands for years, but Twitter had never responded to them

Twitter boss Parag Agrawal also responded, writing on Tuesday that the outcome of the vote is important and that the decision should be made “well-considered,” a sardonic reference to a similar phrase Musk used recently.