Anand Mahindra congratulates Musk; quotes Ghalib

Story by Shaista Fatima | Posted by shaista fatima | Date 28-10-2022

Anand Mahindra congratulates Elon Musk

New Delhi

In a recent turn of events Anand Mahindra took to twitter to congratulate Elon Musk on having bought the social media giant. His succescive tweets came as a reply to Musk's earlier in the day tweet saying, "the bird is freed.."

the bird is freed
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022

Mahindra quoted the famous poet Ghalib's couplet, "Udne de in Parindon ko Azad fiza mein Ghalib.. Jo tere Apne honge wo laut aayenge kisi roz.." (let the birds soar high above in the sky, the ones who truly belong to you shall come back) along with a hashtag #twittertakeover.

Udne de in Parindon ko
Azad fiza mein Ghalib..
Jo tere Apne honge wo laut aayenge kisi roz #TwitterTakeover https://t.co/QQKUotgsgK
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) October 28, 2022

He further tweeted his concern over the state of affairs on the freeing of the bird saying, "but we’re hoping it will be a guided flight to a new orbit.."

The Bird has indeed been set free @elonmusk and we certainly want it to soar ever higher…but we’re hoping it will be a guided flight to a new orbit…not one that hurtles out of control. 🙏🏽 Wishing you well… https://t.co/x0pVeDYert
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) October 28, 2022

For the unversed after completing his 44$ billion acquisition of Twitter Inc, Musk said that he intends to replace Parag Agrawal as CEO of the social media platform and also intends to reverse the permanent ban on users.

According to multiple reports in US media, Twitter's Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and Vijaya Gadde its legal and policy executive were asked to go.

Musk, ahead acquisition deal had stated why he was buying the micro-blogging platform and his thoughts on advertising.

He said, "The reason I acquired Twitter is that it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence. There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left-wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society."

Meanwhile the twitterati has gone wild over the twitter acquisition; hereby are some tweets describing the excitement and dilemma amongst the twitterati.