The announcement that billionaire Elon Musk has change into Twitter's largest shareholder after shopping for a $2.9 billion stake within the firm triggered vocal reactions from the social media platform's workers, who tweeted a mixture of mocking feedback and critical expressions of uneasiness.

"Good morning to our new overlord!" tweeted Twitter's World Head of Companions Lara Cohen.

"Enjoyable occasions forward," wrote Twitter's Product Lead Michael Sayman, including "everytime you wish to chat, let's do it @elonmusk."

Twitter workers, in addition to Twitter customers, did not maintain again on their emotions, sharing jokes about Musk main Twitter's subsequent board assembly.

"Elon on the subsequent Twitter board assembly," tweeted one person sharing an image of Sesame Road's Huge Hen sitting in a boardroom.

"Twitter subsequent board assembly," posted Sayman, sharing an image of Musk sitting in a boardroom dressed like Wario from Nintendo's Tremendous Mario from Saturday Night time Dwell.

Shares within the firm soared by 23 % on Monday following the announcement.

Haraldur Thorleifsson, who leads Twitter's 0→1 Group, reacted to the information writing: "Elon Musk simply (briefly at the very least) made me some huge cash. And I nonetheless dislike him."

Afterward Twitter, Musk requested customers in the event that they needed an edit button on the platform, an initiative Twitter introduced on April 1 that it had began engaged on. Up to now, nearly all of respondents to the Twitter ballot have voted in favor of an edit button.

EJ Samson, who works in World Enterprise Advertising at Twitter, re-shared Musk's ballot with a gif from the movie Bridesmaids displaying a freaked out Kristen Wiig asking: "What is going on?!"

Musk, the richest man on this planet and a controversial Twitter person, now owns 9.2 % of Twitter. Tesla's boss has a following of over 80 million on Twitter, which makes his account one of the vital adopted on the platform.

Musk has not too long ago been essential of Twitter, questioning whether or not the social media platform was doing sufficient to guard freedom of speech. In a Twitter ballot on March 25, he requested customers in the event that they thought Twitter was doing sufficient to stick to the precept, and 70.4 % of respondents answered that the platform wasn't doing sufficient.

"Provided that Twitter serves because the de facto public city sq., failing to stick to free speech ideas essentially undermines democracy," Musk wrote the day after. He requested if a brand new platform was wanted to exchange Twitter.

"Purchase and delete it," answered one person.

Musk is to date a "passive" shareholder within the firm, which implies he owns a major curiosity, however that he is not concerned within the firm's administration.

Analysts consider Musk would possibly finally take a extra lively position.

"We'd anticipate this passive stake as simply the beginning of broader conversations with the Twitter board/administration that would finally result in an lively stake and a possible extra aggressive possession position of Twitter," tweeted Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives.