Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Monday, October 31st,

2022. I'm Brian McCullough today. Just massive wholesale changes happening at Twitter, including possibly making folks pay up for features.

Pity the poor tech billionaires who have collectively lost half a trillion dollars in wealth this year.

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today in the world of tech.

Did I really once say that once the Twitter deal closed there would be sort of an end of new news around the whole thing?

Heh. So many threads to try to weave into a coherent tapestry for you.

First of all, what we've been hearing is that a so-called war room was convened to

work over the weekend to enact big changes now that

Elon is in charge. Sri Ram Krishnan of A16Z confirmed he was one of those in

the War Room prompting a lot of speculation that he'll be named

Twitter CEO at some point.

Also reported to be in the room with Elon himself, our investor David Sachs, investor

Jason Callicanis, so should we expect a special all-end

podcast episode soon. Also, Elon's legal and finance team and a whole bunch of

engineers from Tesla slash Boring Company. Why? Maybe to overhaul the Twitter

product. Weirdly though the first change to the product seems to be this.

Elon Musk directed Twitter executives to quietly change the home page for logged out users to the

Twitter Explorer page instead of a sign-up form, quoting the verge.

Before, visiting Twitter's home page while logged out showed only a sign-up form

encouraging the creation of an account to view tweets. Musk's directive which was implemented

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