So, well, last week Elon Musk finally took the helm of Twitter.

Can you just describe briefly what the first few days were like of him being in charge of Twitter?

He was scheduled to close the deal and take over the company on Friday, October 28.

Two days earlier, one of Twitter's executives had sent this email to the whole staff saying

Elon was in the building, come say hi if you see him.

He apparently met with some of the company's leaders that day.

Then on Thursday, the 27th, he closed the deal a day early and immediately fired the top four executives

without a word of explanation to the staff.

That's Will Arimas. He writes about tech for the post.

The staff did not hear from him directly for a week after that.

Meanwhile, he took to Twitter and started posting dramatic plans for changes to the company

while rumors of layoffs swirled.

Last week, the layoffs hit.

Will says that according to reports and internal sources, about 50% of the company's entire staff has been laid off.

That includes at least some of the employees responsible for policing misinformation.

And of course, this complete whirlwind is all transpiring right before the US midterm elections.

Now, Twitter is not the most popular social network, but it is quite possibly the most influential

when it comes to political discourse and in particular real-time political discourse and news and information.

Twitter is a place where all of the political media are glued on election day as they try to figure out what's going on.

Where are the voting machines failing?

Where are their lines snaking three-city blocks so that people may not be able to vote?

What are the exit polls saying? What are the candidates saying on election day?

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