Musk unlikely to fade into background by not joining Twitter board

Analysis: Week of activity from tech billionaire supports platform chief's prediction of disruptions ahead

Twitter's chief executive knows this will not be the end of it. Announcing that Elon Musk will not join the company's board, Parag Agrawal wrote: There will be distractions ahead."

Interference is hard to avoid when one of your largest shareholders has more than 80 million followers on your platform and a penchant for impulsive use of the tweet button. Since it emerged last Monday that the world's wealthiest person controls 9.2% of Twitter, Musk has lived up to his reputation for shoot-first-ask-later tweeting.