Elon Musk changing into the most important shareholder in Twitter was a shock to many earlier this week.

Because the mud settles, hypothesis mounts about what the wealthiest man on the earth (price $274 billion on Forbes' final rely) has deliberate for the platform.

A Twitter spokesperson wouldn't touch upon specifics, however stated Musk will be part of CEO Parag Agrawal for an "Ask Me Something" with staff quickly.

Musk's tweets, nevertheless, might already supply perception into his considering; although the Tesla and SpaceX CEO's suggestion "Delete the w in twitter?" won't have been critical.

Listed here are 4 of concepts Musk has proven assist for and seem extra prone to come to fruition...

Subscription Service Shakeup

Musk has already prompt a bunch of adjustments to the social media web site's current premium subscription service, Twitter Blue.

In tweets, he prompt subscribers ought to pay notably lower than the present $2.99 a month charges, and will get an authentication checkmark—which he stated ought to seem completely different to present blue verify verification marks.

Musk additionally stated subscribers shouldn't get promote on the platform and will be capable to pay in cryptocurrency dogecoin.

Further Verification, Warfare on Bots

"We have to validate or ought to I say "Confirm" everybody," one consumer instructed Musk this weekend. His reply was uncomplicated: "Sure."

And Musk suspects the arrival of an authentication checkmark rollout may additionally assist deal with faux bot accounts.

"It might massively develop the verified pool & make bot armies too costly to keep up," Musk stated.

Pretend Information Rankings?

"69.420% of statistics are false," tweeted Musk on Saturday.

Like all social media websites, Twitter has struggled to deal with the dimensions of questionable claims posted on its platform.

Latest initiatives have included Birdwatch, a community-moderation system enabling volunteers to label tweets they discovered inaccurate, and a collaboration with worldwide information companies, Reuters and the Related Press.

However it will appear Musk just isn't content material.

Early-stage enterprise capitalist Siddarth Pai instructed him in a tweet this weekend: "Additionally should give scores to information sources based mostly on Pretend information as a % of complete information Decrease the higher."

Musk replied: "Pretend information purveyors would have hysterics, however a scores system would enhance high quality of stories drastically."

Edit Button

Discuss of an edit button on Twitter has rumbled on nearly for the reason that web site's inception. However proper now, it is by no means seemed extra probably.

Twitter has confirmed it's engaged on such a button simply days after Musk launched a ballot on April 5, asking customers: "Would you like an edit button?"

The consequence was 73.6 % in favor, 26.4 % towards.

Twitter Blue subscriber service already has a function permitting edits inside 20-seconds of a tweet being posted.

Replace 4/11/22, 10:19 a.m. ET: This text has been up to date with response from Twitter.