More people will leave Twitter because it's trendy to hate on public people for no reason at all. And most people follow the streams in the waters like dead fishes, so most will leave Twitter because others left it.

It depends on how much power the board has over the product. I think this is not going to amount to much change unless he can exert power over other board members.

If he could make changes my feeling is the rules around vitriol and misinformation would go away leading to the reinstatement of several accounts; including the Orange One.

But again, its not a direct line to that kind of power, and its not clear how Musk will navigate a board for a company he wasn't part of early on.

Hot take: Surprisingly little and/or surprisingly slowly.

First of all "he" is the owner - he'll appoint people to do stuff for him, to run the place when the initial flurry of interest dies down. (Give it till New Years).

Will he fire 75% of the employees? Perhaps over time. Not immediately - company will seize up if he does.

Will he do a general pardon? Perhaps, but there's a lot of logistics involved in that, and that'll probably take quite longer than a finger snap.

My guess is that over the next few months we'll see some old banned 'biggie' names return, and over the next 6-12 well start seeing the most controversial ones get warned/banned off the platform again because they just can't help themselves being controversial jerks.

Flirida Man be back? Probably, which will ironically be the slow death sentence for "Truth Social". 😜👌

I agree, I think some bans will be retracted, because the The Guy With The Sink needs to demonstrate his powers. And the greates idiots getting re-banned again. I wonder whether something changes for how Twitter works technically.

Also I'm curious whether this now actually incentivises more people established on Twitter to explore the Fediverse. I heard the Fedi (a.k.a. "Mastodon" 🙄) referenced noticably more already.

And yeah, there's the Angry Orange. That will be fun to watch. 😃🍿