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　　Musk has transferred more than 50 Tesla employees to participate in the Twitter acquisition, most of them are software engineers.

　　Internal records show that employees from Musk’s other companies have been authorized to work at Twitter, including more than 50 Tesla employees, two Boring employees and one Neuralink employee.

　　Not only that, but some of Musk's friends, advisors, and supporters also participated, such as Jared Birchall, director of Musk's home office, Jason Calacanis, an angel investor, and PayPal's founding COO and investor David Sacks. In addition, James Musk, who works at Palantir, and Andrew Musk, who works at Neuralink, also participated.

　　There are quite a few Tesla employees involved in the takeover, just to name a few, software development director Ashok Elluswamy, Autopilot software and TeslaBot engineering director Milan Kovac, software Maha Virduhagiri, senior director of engineering, Pete Scheutzow, senior manager of employee technology programs, and Jake Nocon, who works in Tesla's intelligence, security, and surveillance divisions

　　Musk wants loyal aides to determine which Twitter employees should be laid off and which ones should stay. Musk also asked them to learn everything about Twitter as quickly as possible, from source code, content moderation and data privacy requirements, so they could redesign the Twitter platform.

　　In addition, Musk filed a revised 13D filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), indicating that he would serve as CEO of Twitter after the acquisition. But he also responded later that serving as Twitter CEO alone is "just a temporary arrangement."

　　Although Musk has been advocating freedom of speech, such claims must also be consistent with legal and commercial realities and cannot be messed up. How do dispatched Tesla employees split their time between Tesla and Twitter? It's not clear yet.

　　Historically, when Tesla employees worked for Musk's other companies, they often got paid by other companies as consultants. Sometimes an employee from one company fills a position at another company, for example, Charlie Kuehmann, Tesla's vice president of materials, is also a vice president of SpaceX.

　　A Tesla employee revealed that some Tesla employees were asked by their superiors to assist other companies with some projects without being paid because it was good for their career development or because the help was implicated in related transactions or projects.

　　Some Twitter employees revealed that Tesla employees are reviewing Twitter code, although their skills are largely directed towards Autopilot and other Tesla software and hardware, and do not overlap with building the language and systems that sustain the social network. For example, most engineers at car companies have no experience designing and operating search engines and platforms, even Tesla engineers.

　　Twitter has multiple code bases, each with millions of lines of code, and later the system's QPS (queries per second) reached 10 or even 100. The language used by Tesla is mainly Python, and the language used by Twitter is mostly Scala.