Musk dissolves Twitter board, ignores Trump comeback questions

Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter’s Board of Directors, four days after acquiring the social media company.

The move was announced in a document filed by the company to the US Security and Exchange Commission, Business Insider reports.

The filing which was published on Monday read in part, “On October 27, 2022, and as a result of the consummation of the Merger, Mr. Musk became the sole director of Twitter.

“In accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, effective as of the effective time of the Merger, the following persons, who were directors of Twitter prior to the effective time of the Merger, are no longer directors of Twitter: Bret Taylor, Parag Agrawal, Omid Kordestani, David Rosenblatt, Martha Lane Fox, Patrick Pichette, Egon Durban, Fei-Fei Li and Mimi Alemayehou.”

Since Musk officially taken reins of Twitter on Thursday, the billionaire has been making changes to the company.

Musk’s first move was to fire top officials the company, including former CEO, Parag Agrawal. The Chief Financial Officer, Ned Segal; Chief legal officer, Vijaya Gadde; and general counsel Sean Edgett, were also dismissed the same day.

In a related development, Musk, has sarcastically shaded persons who have continuously asked him whether former US President, Donald Trump, will make a return to Twitter.

Musk, in a tweet on Monday night said, “If I had a dollar for every time someone asks me if Trump is coming back on this platform, Twitter would be minting money.”

Since the takeover by Musk, many tweeps and the media have anticipated and projected the return of the former US President to the platform.

Trump, whose account was permanently suspended from the platform in January 2021, was accused of inciting violence through his tweets following the Capitol Hill riots and was termed a “risk.”

Followiing Musk’s take-over of the social media platform, Trump wrote on his own social media platform ‘Truth Social’, “I am very happy that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be run by radical left lunatics and maniacs that truly hate our country.”