So what to make of latest Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino’s PR-speak model of her strategy to managing the app?

Yesterday, Yaccarino published a series of tweets, by which she outlined why she selected to return work for Twitter underneath new proprietor Elon Musk, and what’s going to information her decision-making on the app.

And most of what Yaccarino shared is predictable cheerleading:

“Elon knew area exploration and electrical autos wanted transformation, so he did it. It’s additionally changing into clear that the worldwide city sq. wants transformation – to drive civilization ahead by way of the unfiltered change of knowledge and open dialogue in regards to the issues that matter most to us. Have you ever ever been speaking with somebody notably insightful and thought, you need to have the liberty to talk your thoughts. All of us ought to. Enter Twitter 2.0.”

Yeah, that’s just about an Elon speaking level – and I don’t know that free speech was as contained as Musk and his contemporaries wish to undertaking of their public statements.

However this has turn out to be a standard chorus, and a rallying name for Musk’s acolytes, so it’s no shock to see Yaccarino parrot the identical right here.

What precisely that can imply, in a enterprise context, is one other factor altogether, and it’ll be attention-grabbing to see how Yaccarino, particularly, is ready to stability this strategy together with her remit to draw extra advertisers to the app.

As a reminder, Twitter’s US advert income is down by virtually 60% this yr, because of many manufacturers opting out of Elon’s numerous modifications on the app. These have included bringing again beforehand banned customers, lessening removals of violative content, placing elevated reliance on the consumer group for moderation, and permitting advertisements to be topic to viewers fact-checks by way of Neighborhood Notes.

A few of these might find yourself being constructive steps, however at current, many manufacturers are hesitant, and it’s Yaccarino that’ll be tasked with offering extra reassurance on every factor.

“Twitter’s on a mission to turn out to be the world’s most correct real-time data supply and a worldwide city sq. for communication. That is not an empty promise. That’s OUR actuality. Once you begin by wrapping your arms round this highly effective imaginative and prescient, actually every little thing is feasible.  It’s a must to genuinely imagine – and work laborious for that perception.”

Yeah, extra cheerleading, not overly insightful. ‘Wrapping your arms’ round a company idea is a selected spotlight.

“The success of Twitter 2.0 is all of our duty.  We have to assume massive. We have to remodel. We have to do all of it collectively. Our first rules are questioning our assumptions and constructing one thing new from the bottom up. It’s uncommon to have the prospect to place a brand new future into the fingers of each individual, companion, and creator on the planet.”

Once more, it’s actually a PR-style name to motion, affected by bombastic platitudes, which is just about what you’ll count on from the incoming CEO of an organization. Nevertheless it doesn’t actually present loads of perception into how Yaccarino will deal with Twitter’s key issues – although the notice about difficult assumptions is what’s seemingly been key in Musk’s conventional enterprise strategy.

When Musk took over Tesla, for instance, there have been a lot of assumptions about what may and couldn’t be performed with electrical autos, with batteries, particularly proving to be a stumbling level for a lot of previous makes an attempt on this area.

The belief was that batteries price a specific amount to make, and couldn’t be made cheaper, however Musk broke the method down, sought out new choices, according to technological advances and progress, and located new methods to make it occur. That was a key turning level for the corporate, and that’s the identical strategy that Elon’s taken ever since, re-examining doable options to present issues, even when they’ve been tried many instances earlier than, and seeing if there is perhaps new methods to deal with them, with the potential of discovering new alternatives.

That’s why he’s making an attempt out numerous issues that Twitter’s examined prior to now, like creator subscriptions, Twitter Blue, unique video content material, and so on. Twitter’s tried, and primarily deserted every of those initiatives prior to now, which is why most analysts are skeptical of Musk’s makes an attempt – however Elon’s going to seek out out for himself whether or not these approaches can work, with a brand new perspective, versus simply taking everybody else’s phrase for it.

As a result of if a special approach could be discovered, that would resolve all of Twitter’s issues.

Twitter Blue, for instance, nonetheless hasn’t seen vital take up, regardless of Musk’s makes an attempt to make it a extra engaging bundle. But when Twitter could make it work, that’ll herald extra money, whereas decreasing Twitter’s reliance on advert {dollars}, and doubtlessly addressing a lot of its bot and spam issues in a single resolution.

If Twitter can increase take-up, that may be superb. However proof would recommend that it may’t – which, once more, is why exterior commentators are essential of Musk’s strikes. It’s much less about ideological variations, a standard counter to Elon criticism, and extra about historic context and knowledge.

But when Elon can discover a manner, as he has prior to now, it may very well be a revolution, regardless of what historical past might recommend.

That’s an attention-grabbing level of context in Musk, and now Yaccarino’s strategy – that not every little thing they do goes to work, however each experiment will give them extra context. And even when these exterior the corporate imagine that we now have sufficient context already to desert a few of these approaches, Elon and Yaccarino are going to problem assumptions, and take a look at them anyway, with a view to re-building the app according to these rules.

Is that even doable? As an outdoor analyst, I’m predictably skeptical, as you may count on. However that is the way in which for Twitter 2.0.