Hello and welcome to Tisky Sour. I'm Moeolody McLean, standing in from Michael Walker,

who, no fear, will be back in the hot seat very soon. But in the meantime, helping me hold

up this port is the brilliant Ash Shakar. Ash, thank you for joining me this Friday evening.

Is ladies night, baby? It is indeed, but tonight we will be talking about a lot of men.

First up is Rishi Soonak's first foray into foreign diplomacy, as a man's life hangs

in the balance. And the so-called fiscal black hole looms large as quasi-quarting attempts

to take control of the pesky we crash the economy narrative. Elon Musk might be killing

Twitter. The billionaire took over the social media site last week and since then it's been

unbridled chaos at Twitter HQ. On the back end, Musk has cut Twitter staff by 50% while

demanding huge changes to the site's key features. These include a new subscription

service to verify users called Twitter Blue, which allows anyone who pays $8 a month

to obtain a blue tick that will verify their identity. However, a lack of any identity

checks when Twitter Blue was rolled out quickly led to some cheeky impersonation. Major

companies, including Lockheed Martin, Nintendo and BP, found themselves lampooned by pretty

convincing parodies. The mess led to the Twitter Blue scheme being paused today. While this

was very amusing for many of us watching, big brands have not found themselves as tickled.

And that's a problem because 90% of Twitter's revenue comes from advertisers. And these advertisers

are now running scared because Musk's personal changes and Twitter layoffs can and are severely

impacting the way the site functions. Musk says that Twitter is currently losing about

$4 million a day in ad spend and needs to urgently switch to a subscription framework. And

in his first ever email to Twitter staff, since taking over, the Tesla mogul said this.

Frankly, the economic picture ahead is dire, especially for a company like ours that's

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