---
title: "Elon Musk Brings in Tesla Engineers to Review Twitter Code"
description: "The Elon Musk-ification of Twitter dot com is already underway — and its new owner seems geared up to leave his mark on the site's code."
date: "2022-10-28"
modified: "2022-10-28"
authors:
  - name: "Noor Al-Sibai"
    job_title: "Senior Staff Writer"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-tesla-engineers-twitter-code"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Tesla"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
  - "twitter"
---

# Elon Musk Brings in Tesla Engineers to Review Twitter Code

![The Elon Musk-ification of Twitter dot com is already underway — and its new owner seems geared up to leave his mark on the site's code.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/elon-musk-tesla-engineers-twitter-code.jpg>)
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## Tesla Coil

Uh oh — it looks like the Muskification of Twitter is already underway.

Shortly after Elon Musk's drama-laden Twitter deal went through and he officially became the owner of the social network, [*Bloomberg* reported](<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-27/tesla-engineers-visit-twitter-office-to-review-code-for-musk?sref=YfHlo0rL#xj4y7vzkg>) that the world's richest man had already brought in his own engineers — from Tesla, of all places — to review the site's code.

Sure, it sounds puzzling. A social media site is, in many ways, very different from an electric car. In the end, it might be a matter of trust: unnamed sources close to the matter told *Bloomberg* that the engineers were apparently there to help explain Twitter's code to Musk.

The report also noted that Twitter's code was frozen around noon Pacific Time yesterday — approximately when the deal closed — to ensure nobody messes with it. As foreboding as all that sounds, *Bloomberg* pointed out that the company did the same kind of code freeze when the Musk deal was first announced back in April.

Along with *Bloomberg*'s initial reporting on the code review, [*Insider* also reported](<https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-reach-agreement-to-close-acquisition-deal-2022-10>) that Twitter's new owner has asked people he has meetings with today to "bring code" with them, whatever that means.

## Code Switch

Unsurprisingly, when news of Musk's code walkthrough dropped, people on the site he now owns had a lot to say about it.

One user called it "[\[tire\] kicking behavior](<https://twitter.com/dearbongo/status/1585980877729075201>)," while several others [poked fun](<https://twitter.com/radbrowndads/status/1585996925131554817>) at how [absurd the concept](<https://twitter.com/ryanboros/status/1585992805830127617>) of such a review really is.

"Imagining some random automotive engineer looking at the presumably millions of lines of code for a few hours then having to bluff to their incredibly dumb boss that it all looks fine," [one user posted](<https://twitter.com/TGNProfessor/status/1585974880096641025>).

Romance novelist Brooke Magnanti — better known by her pen name, Belle de Jour — issued perhaps the sickest burn.

"Top notch computering by our age's most revered genius," [she tweeted](<https://twitter.com/belledejour_uk/status/1585998263009714176>), adding that "GO LOOK AT THE CODE is to 21st century action movie boilerplate what ENHANCE THE VIDEO was to the 20th."

**More Musk:** [*Tesla Reportedly Under Criminal Investigation for Claiming Its Cars Can Drive Themselves*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-reportedly-criminal-investigation-self-driving>)

## Author
At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow.

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