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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

Musk unlikely to fade into background by not joining Twitter board

Elon Musk speaks at the ‘Cyber Rodeo’ opening party at the Tesla Giga Texas facility near Austin last Thursday.
Not his first rodeo: Elon Musk speaks at the ‘Cyber Rodeo’ opening party at the Tesla Giga Texas facility near Austin last Thursday. Photograph: Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images

Twitter’s chief executive knows this will not be the end of it. Announcing that Elon Musk will not join the company’s board, Parag Agrawal wrote: “There will be distractions ahead.”

Interference is hard to avoid when one of your largest shareholders has more than 80 million followers on your platform and a penchant for impulsive use of the tweet button. Since it emerged last Monday that the world’s wealthiest person controls 9.2% of Twitter, Musk has lived up to his reputation for shoot-first-ask-later tweeting.

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