After a threatening ultimatum by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk, workers are leaving the platform left and right.
Just two weeks after Elon Musk bought Twitter, it seems like the platform is running to the ground. The world’s richest man closed a $44 billion deal to purchase the blue bird social network, immediately making upsetting decisions.
The day he became CEO, he laid-off 3700 employees and charged celebrities a fee for the blue checkmark. The latter development ensued mayhem upon the platform, with thousands of fake accounts tweeting as real celebrities.
Earlier this week, Musk sent an email to the remaining workers demanding “extremely hardcore” commitment. Whoever decided not to could consider himself fired.
According to several reports, however, many actually decided to quit instead of working with Musk. The BBC gathered several anonymous statements by the very few that decided to stay, and the overall concern is that Twitter might not be able to work anymore.
Some say that Twitter has less than 2000 workers left worldwide, some that the chain of command is utterly broken. “The manager of that team, his manager, was terminated. And then that manager’s manager was terminated. The person above that was one of the execs terminated on the first day. So there’s nobody left in that chain of command.”
Internal communication services are allegedly exploding with “goodbye” messages, some technical problems can already be witnessed on the platform. Some of the departing engineers said that the platform could fail as soon as Monday.
Another source said that they wonder how they are keeping “the lights on”. Indeed, they are not.
Lights off
After Thursday’s exodus, Twitter decided to close offices until Monday. Nobody really knows what is going to happen, and so far the platform works just fine.
Elon Musk himself shrugged off these concerns tweeting that “the best are staying” and “Twitter usage reached an all time high”.
And … we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
However, behind the curtains, other reports claim that he is not so confident after all. Apparently, he has been in several meetings trying to convince top executives to remain. Furthermore, with the World Cup starting on Saturday, many fear that a depleted Twitter will not be able to handle such traffic.
Elon Musk is less and less popular, as an incident occurred last night shows. Offensive attributes have been projected on Twitter San Francisco headquarters’ building. Expressions like “petulant pimple” and “apartheid profiteer”, alluding at Musk’s family history in South Africa.
Times are uncertain for Twitter, and perhaps it might actually be the end of the blue bird platform. We’ll just have to wait and see.
