- Former T-Mobile boss John Legere suggested running Twitter for Elon Musk.
- Musk replied to Legere, saying "no" and that a technologist was needed to run Twitter.
Elon Musk has turned down an offer from the former CEO of T-Mobile, John Legere, who suggested running Twitter himself.
Legere, who served as the $4 from 2012 to 2020, wrote a tweet to Musk on Sunday, saying perhaps he should be in charge of Twitter instead.
"You can stop managing daily business, and "content moderation" and then support product/technology, let someone else "run" Twitter," Legere $4 in the tweet.
"I'm expensive but so is what you paid for twitter," Legere continued adding that Musk should be "leadership example of how to tweet."
Responding to Legere, Musk $4: "No."
Legere, $4 from T-Mobile's board of directors more than a month before his term was due to expire, $4 to Musk, saying it was a short interview with him and "can't say I didn't try."
He told Musk in another $4 to "consider the free advice."
"I believe Twitter can be the marketplace for transparent free speech AND a profitable growth company. That will require vision but also leadership and management," Legere said in the tweet.
Musk later told Legere in a $4 that he liked both Legere and T-Mobile US' CEO Mike Sievert, but said Twitter was a software and servers company and the technology had to evolve quickly, "which requires a technologist."
It's not the first time Musk has rejected a business leader's advice about how to run Twitter.
$4 suggested to Musk that the $8 verification fee could be dropped for the most accurate Community Notes contributors on the site. Musk replied to Cuban, saying: "$8 for all."
Musk's SpaceX and T-Mobile $4 in August to offer cell users network access via Starlink satellites, providing coverage in most areas in the US, including rural locations. Musk $4 the service was aimed at "eliminating dead zones worldwide."