{"id":71669,"date":"2022-12-19T17:55:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=71669"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:24:07","slug":"edward-snowden-puts-himself-forward-as-twitters-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/edward-snowden-puts-himself-forward-as-twitters-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden puts himself forward as Twitter&#8217;s new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former employee of the NSA and CIA of the United States, Edward Snowden, in response to a post by Twitter owner Elon Musk about seeking a CEO for the social network, offered his candidacy for the post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I take payment in Bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wW0Qa9NxWi\">https:\/\/t.co\/wW0Qa9NxWi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edward Snowden (@Snowden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Snowden\/status\/1604628658852970496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I take payment in Bitcoin,&#8221; Snowden wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a post, Musk complained that &#8216;the question is to find a CEO who can keep Twitter alive&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in November, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/changpeng-zhao-weighs-twitters-prospects-under-the-unpredictable-elon-musk\">predicted a positive impact<\/a> on the platform&#8217;s development by the new owner and head of Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1604617643973124097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Private investor under the handle iamraisini said that Musk is trying to legitimise his resignation through the poll. According to him, Arab shareholders have already asked the billionaire to step down from the CEO post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just overheard Elon Musk discussing investment opportunities from the Amir of Qatar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TamimBinHamad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TamimBinHamad<\/a> &#038; other Saudi Royals for his businesses, specifically Twitter,but from their body language &#038; diplomatic response, it didn\u2019t seem very positive. They asked him to find a suitable CEO<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 R\u039bISINI \u30e9\u30a4\u30b7\u30cb (@iamraisini) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamraisini\/status\/1604619857257025537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The information is confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/12\/19\/musk-twitter-ceo-poll\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>. According to the paper, investors are urging him to give up one of his leadership posts to avoid being stretched across multiple companies.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the paper noted Musk&#8217;s sale of 10% of his Tesla stake after the Twitter poll in November 2021. It also noted his subsequent December CEO tweet with a quote from Bulgakov&#8217;s The Master and Margarita:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for \u2014 it may come true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1604623424164282368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On October 28, Musk closed the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-closes-deal-to-buy-twitter\">deal to buy the social network for $44 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in November, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/changpeng-zhao-weighs-twitters-prospects-under-the-unpredictable-elon-musk\">predicted a positive impact<\/a> on the platform&#8217;s development by the new owner and head of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/vitalik-buterin-criticises-elon-musk-over-path-to-authoritarianism-on-twitter\">criticised<\/a> Musk for his approach to moderating content on the social network.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former employee of the NSA and CIA of the United States, Edward Snowden, in response to a post by Twitter owner Elon Musk about seeking a CEO for the social network, offered his candidacy for the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1587,1217,40],"class_list":["post-71669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-edward-snowden","tag-elon-musk","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71671,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669\/revisions\/71671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}