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New Twitter CEO and sole director Elon Musk sent a companywide email to remaining workers of the social media business on Wednesday, demanding they commit to operating “extensive hrs at large depth” or acquire “3 months of severance,” if they did not consent to these ailments, or aid his vision for “Twitter 2..”
The companywide ultimatum, despatched around midnight in San Francisco time and shared with CNBC by recent Twitter staff members, will come following Musk has presently fired crucial Twitter executives, laid off 50 percent of Twitter’s total-time personnel, and slashed the selection of contractors doing the job with the business without having observe. This week, he also fired veteran engineers at Twitter immediately after they criticized him in community, or in the firm’s inner Slack channels.
Considering that Musk, who’s also CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, took in excess of Oct. 28, he has announced sweeping alterations prepared for Twitter. 1 transform that he insisted the corporation roll out immediately, identified as Twitter Blue verification, experienced to be rescinded, even so.
The $7.99/month Blue subscription service permitted people to pay back for a blue test mark that seemed like the mark beforehand reserved to show an account was confirmed or formal.
A deluge of impersonators acquired the paid out subscriber checkmarks to pose as legitimate celebs, makes and politicians, and in some instances, they posted wrong information and facts about providers.
For case in point, accounts impersonated the multinational drug corporation Eli Lilly. A single impersonator triggered a severe problem when they tweeted, “we are psyched to announce insulin is free now.” The tweet remained on the social media system for hours ahead of it was taken down. The real Eli Lilly account later on tweeted: “We apologize to those who have been served a deceptive message from a fake Lilly account.”
Eli Lilly’s stock price dropped sharply after the phony information was posted, and the corporation has decided to suspend advertising and marketing on Twitter indefinitely.
Musk now designs a revised Twitter Blue Confirmed launch on Nov. 29.
This is the full e mail that Elon Musk sent to Twitter staff on Wednesday (transcribed by CNBC):
From: Elon Musk
To: Crew [at Twitter]
Subj. A Fork in the Street
Date: Nov. 16, 2022 [time stamp removed]
Likely ahead, to establish a breakthrough Twitter 2. and realize success in an ever more aggressive world, we will want to be really hardcore. This will mean operating lengthy hours at large intensity. Only exceptional overall performance will represent a passing grade.
Twitter will also be a great deal extra engineering-driven. Design and style and item administration will even now be quite essential and report to me, but these composing terrific code will represent the the greater part of our staff and have the greatest sway.
At its heart, Twitter is a program and servers company, so l assume this can make perception.
If you are absolutely sure that you want to be portion of the new Twitter, please click on yes on the website link down below:
[Link removed]
Everyone who has not carried out so by 5pm ET tomorrow (Thursday) will get a few months of severance.
Regardless of what choice you make, thank you for your attempts to make Twitter productive.
Elon
