Twitter has fired two of its top executives amid the ongoing controversy surrounding Elon Musk’s plan to buy the company.
On Thursday, Twitter general manager Kayvon Beykpour announced that he leave the company after seven years, claimed that CEO Parag Agrawal “asked me to leave after letting me know he wanted to take the team in a different direction”.
“I hope and expect that Twitter’s best days are still ahead…with the right nurturing and management, that impact will only grow,” added Beykpour.
In addition, Bruce Falck, Twitter’s product and revenue lead, was also fired. Similarly, Falck answered via Twitter, where he thanked his former colleagues and added that he “can’t wait” to see what the company builds.
Agarwal solves moves in one a bunch of tweets on Thursday, where he tried to tackle why a “lame duck CEO would make these changes” if the company was on the cusp of being acquired by Musk.
“While I expect the deal to close, we need to be prepared for any eventuality and always do what’s right for Twitter. I’m responsible for leading and running Twitter, and it’s our mission to build build a stronger Twitter every day,” Agrawal said.
“Regardless of the future ownership of the company, we’re here to improve Twitter as a product and business for our customers, partners, shareholders, and all of you.”
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Meanwhile Musk warn his followers on Sunday with the news that “Twitter Law Department just called to complain that I violated their NDA by disclosing the bot test sample size to be 100! This actually happened.”
Musk, in a tweet, previously linked to a story by Reuters says Twitter estimates that fake or spam accounts accounted for less than 5% of their monetized daily active users in the first quarter.
Billionaire followed this by note that Twitter deal was “temporarily held pending details supporting the calculation that spam/fake accounts actually represent less than 5% of users”, before claiming in a subsequent tweet that he still repurchase commitment.
Musk then announced how his team evaluated the estimate, claiming that they would compile a “random sample of 100 followers” before inviting others to “repeat the same process and see what happens.” they discovered”.
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