Sources: Twitter has begun reinstating ~62K accounts with more than 10K followers after Musk’s poll on general amnesty; one of those accounts has 5M+ followers (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Herb Scribner / Axios:
Musk is running a Twitter poll on reinstating Donald Trump, after saying in October that Twitter will form a “content moderation council” to make such decisions  —  Elon Musk dropped a 24-hour poll on his own Twitter feed Friday night asking whether or not to reinstate former President Trump to the social media platform.

Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Musk has pitched charging most or all users a subscription fee to use Twitter; internal estimates show the new Blue could actually lose Twitter money  —  Will he go through with it?  PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more

Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Twitter engineers were told on Friday to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code for Elon Musk to review, before being told to shred those printouts  —  Twitter has a new CEO.  And he’d like to see your code, please  —  Elon Musk took over Twitter on Thursday like a military general …

Casey Newton / Platformer:
Source: Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox directed the New Product Experimentation division to scale back and focus entirely on short-form video innovation  —  Facebook’s New Product Experimentation division is scaling back its mission dramatically, Platformer has learned.

Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their badges  —  Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter’s new CEO considers ending free verification  —  Twitter is strongly considering making its users pay …

Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Twitter’s newsletter platform Revue, acquired in early 2021, is scheduled to close by the end of the year, and its Notes product has been paused  —  A new Vine camera is in.  Notes and Revue are out  —  With massive layoffs expected to hit Twitter tomorrow, on Thursday employees once again endured …