Elon Musk visits Twitter headquarters ahead of takeover
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Oct. 27 (UPI) — Elon Musk is expected to address Twitter employees on Friday after he made a quirky visit to its San Francisco headquarters with a kitchen sink in hand.
The founder of Tesla and SpaceX is expected to finalize a $44 billion deal for the social media platform Friday afternoon. Leslie Berland, Twitter’s chief marketing officer, sent a memo to employees Wednesday saying that Musk was visiting the company.
Shortly after Berland sent out the message, Musk posted a Twitter video of him inside the company’s San Francisco offices with the sink.
“Entering Twitter HQ — let that sink in!” Musk wrote, as he also changed his bio on the social media site to read “Chief Twit.”
Musk previously told prospective investors that he planned to cut Twitter’s staff by some 75%, shrinking it from 7,500 to a little more than 2,000. Even without the takeover, Twitter had talked about trimming $800 million from payroll by the end of 2023.
The on again-off again courtship between Musk and his favorite social media site took its final turn earlier this month when Musk submitted a new bid to purchase the company.
Twitter had taken Musk to court to make him go through with a deal to purchase the company after he initially backed out of it. Musk complained that the company officials withheld information from him about the number of fake accounts.
Twitter rejected claims that it has refused to provide information about the phony accounts.
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