--- title: "Elon Musk Joins Board of Twitter, Promises “Significant Improvements”" description: "Elon Musk is joining the board of Twitter — and he's already throwing his weight around by promising big changes to the site." date: "2022-04-05" modified: "2022-04-05" authors: - name: "Jon Christian" job_title: "Executive Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-twitter-promises" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "SpaceX" - "the digest" - "twitter" --- # Elon Musk Joins Board of Twitter, Promises “Significant Improvements” ![Elon Musk is joining the board of Twitter — and he's already throwing his weight around by promising big changes to the site.]() *CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - MAY 30: Spacex founder Elon Musk celebrates after the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the manned Crew Dragon spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Earlier in the day NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley lifted off an inaugural flight and will be the first people since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 to be launched into space from the United States. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) \Image: Getty Images\* ## Twitter Brain You may remember the ancient days of yesterday, when Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk [bought a whopping 9.2 percent stake]() in social media platform Twitter — making him the company's largest single shareholder. Now it's come out that Musk is joining Twitter's board — and already throwing his weight around by promising big changes to the site. "I’m excited to share that we’re appointing Elon Musk to our board!" [wrote]() Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal this morning. "Looking forward to working with Parag and Twitter board to make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!" Musk [shot back](), in something on the spectrum between a promise and a threat. ## Edit Button What'll those changes look like? It's tough to say, especially with Musk already stretched thin between ventures ranging from A-listers like SpaceX and Tesla to also-rans like the Boring Company and Neuralink. One possibility is that Musk will push for changes to the Twitter algorithm, which he was [raging at just prior to the stock buy](). Must wasted no time in teasing changes, starting with Twitter's [eternally teased feature](), a potential edit button on tweets. His allusion to the concept was typically trollish, though, coming [in the form of a poll]() asking whether users whether they wanted an edit button — but offering only "yse" and "on" as replies. Other Twitter users wasted no time in [tearing that idea apart](), of course — because at the end of the day, regardless of who's on the board, it's still Twitter. **More on Elon Musk:** [*Yeah, Sure, We Totally Believe Elon Musk "Refused \[to\] Enter" Berghain*]() ## Author I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()