The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, and Musk will take
questions directly from Twitter employees, the source added.
The news, first reported by Business Insider, comes after
Twitter said last week that it anticipated a shareholder vote on the sale by
early August.
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that Musk would attend the
company all-hands meeting this week.
Ever since Musk's takeover bid, many Twitter employees have
expressed concerns that the billionaire's erratic behavior could destabilize
the social media company's business, and hurt it financially.
Back in April, Agrawal was seen quelling employee anger
during a company-wide meeting where staff demanded answers to how managers
planned to handle an anticipated mass exodus prompted by Musk.
Last week, Musk warned Twitter that he might walk away from
his deal to acquire the company, if it failed to provide the data on spam and
fake accounts that he seeks.
The billionaire received support last week from one state
attorney general with an outsize personality and edge-skating stance striding
into the maelstrom of Musk's $44 billion now-tenuous bid for Twitter. He
announced to launch an investigation of Twitter for “potential false reporting”
of bots on its platform to bolster complaints Musk himself made last week in
threatening to walk away from the deal.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced his
investigation of Twitter last week just hours after Musk, the billionaire Tesla
and SpaceX CEO, accused Twitter of refusing to disclose the extent of its spam
bot and fake accounts.
Paxton's unusual move struck observers as singular and
possibly inappropriate, though he likely has the legal authority to pursue it.
In launching his investigation, Paxton suggested that Twitter might have
violated Texas' Deceptive Trade Practices Act.