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The social media company Twitter is now officially owned Elon Musk. The richest man in the world is said to have spent up to US $ 44 billion or equivalent to Rp 682 trillion. for the acquisition. (exchange rate IDR 15,500).
Immediately following the purchase deal, the richest man in the world immediately fired Twitter executives, including Parag Agrawal and Ned Segal. So who are these two figures?
Parag Agrawal is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter. According to detikcom records, he became the CEO of Twitter, replacing Jack Dorsey in November 2021 ago. But before that, he has been a part of Twitter since 2011, starting his journey as a software engineer.
Meanwhile, Ned Segal is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the social media company with the blue bird logo. He has been on Twitter since 2017.
Both are senior officers of the company. With the release of the two people, it is still unclear who will fill the top vacancy on Twitter.
Musk and Agrawal feud
The name Parag Agrawal is a figure who is said to have an unfavorable relationship with Musk. In fact, he was dragged into trouble by a Twitter bot account case, which led to a plan to suspend purchases.
Reporting from the WSJ on Friday (10/28/2022), Musk had shown his displeasure with Twitter’s top management. At one point, he’d replied to Agrawal’s tweet with a poop emoji.
Not only that, according to detikcom records, Musk also briefly challenged Agrawal for an open debate on the percentage of bot accounts. At the time, he felt duped by Twitter and asked the company to try 100 accounts and confirm that the accounts were real.
“I hereby challenge @paraga to a public debate on Twitter’s bot rate. Let me show the public that Twitter has
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