It's sometimes said that the best business ideas bubble up from ordinary workers, and Elon Musk, fresh off of paying $44 billion to buy Twitter and sacking half its workforce, is empowering his remaining employees to tap their creative juices and improve the product — or help him cut costs.
On Friday afternoon, Twitter employees received an email asking them to submit their "great ideas" for the social media company. The note assured recipients that no ideas were off limits, but an accompanying form offered some not-so-subtle guidance about the type of breakthroughs most valued by the company's "Chief Twit."
