The social media platform came under the Tesla CEO’s ownership on Thursday night, hours before the Friday deadline.
Screenwriter Shonda Rhimes announced Saturday that she will leave Twitter after Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially took over the social media platform this week.
« Not hanging around for whatever Elon has planned. Bye. » she tweeted without revealing further details about whether or when she will delete her Twitter account permanently.
The social media platform came under Musk’s ownership on Thursday night, hours before the Friday deadline. The billionaire now controls the company after spending months trying to back out of the $44 billion deal.
Musk originally agreed to the merger in April, but later tried to back out of his proposal. The billionaire cited high levels of bots and spam on the social media platform as his reason for nixing the deal, but Twitter denied his claims that the company had undercounted fake accounts.
Some social media users expressed their concerns about Musk running Twitter, including one Reddit user who told Newsweek that Musk’s « history of false allegations, employee abuse and his huge ego » is why some people are concerned about the future of the social media platform.
