Fri. 04/08 – Elon To Give A “Hello, Fellow Tweeps” AMA

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, April 8th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.6	Some folks at Twitter are nervous about Elon Musk's arrival, so he's going to do an AMA to rally the troops.
0:16.0	Twitter is testing unmentioned.
0:18.0	Robin Hood is fully rolling out that promised wallet feature.
0:22.0	The increasing lexicon of euphemisms that people have to use to speak
0:25.2	freely on sites like Tik-Tok, and of course, the weekend long read suggestions.
0:30.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Twitter CEO Perag Agruwall has apparently emailed staff to announce that Elon Musk
0:40.6	will hold an internal AMA addressing concerns that Musk would sabotage
0:46.5	Twitter's company culture, quoting the Washington Post.
0:50.4	The announcement from Twitter Chief Executive Paragagrawal of the highly unusual internal
0:55.0	AMA, which stands for Ask Me Anything session, was an effort to assuage anxious workers who in recent days
1:01.8	have expressed worries that the firebrand
1:04.1	musk could inflict damage to the company's culture as well as make it harder for people
1:08.2	to do their jobs. We say that Twitter is what's happening and what people are talking about right now.
1:14.3	Often we at Twitter are what's happening and what people are talking about.
1:18.0	That has certainly been the case this week.
1:19.7	Agrowall wrote in a company-wide email Thursday inviting staff to the AMA.
1:25.2	Following our board announcement, many of you have had different types of questions about
1:28.8	Elon Musk and I want to welcome you to ask those questions to him."
1:33.0	This follows extensive debate on internal company channels.
1:38.0	Quick question.
1:39.0	If an employee tweeted some of the things Elon tweets, they'd likely be the subject of an HR investigation.
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