Billionaire Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time on Thursday, projecting a need for “manner streamlining” but offering few new details about his $44 billion takeover of the social media company.
Musk appeared on a video conference 10 minutes late for what became a free Q&A session moderated by a Twitter executive, and in which Musk rambled on about the existence of aliens and other space civilizations, as well as his view that the Twitter was supposed to help “civilization and conscience”.
The businessman told the Twitter team that he wants to leverage the service’s user numbers to at least one billion people and said that advertising will continue to be important to the company, despite having previously said that he believes Twitter should not provide ads, according to audio of the meeting heard by Reuters.
“I believe advertising is very important to Twitter,” Musk said. “I’m not against ads. I would probably talk to advertisers and say something like, ‘Hey, let’s just make sure the ads are as fun as possible.’
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