Musk took control of the company on October 27 and has been active on the social networking site ever since.
The company has been in turmoil since that time.
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The CEO, CFO, and top lawyer were all let go by Musk after he took control of the company.
They were due millions of dollars in golden parachute payoffs from their public employment contracts. According to two news outlets, Musk dismissed them "for cause" in order to avoid owing payouts and unvested stock awards.
In addition, other executives were either dismissed or publicly announced their exits. The general manager of core technology was cut while on leave after his wife died.
The news of layoffs spread quickly after one employee who is eight months pregnant was locked out of her laptop.
It didn't take long for an employee to file a lawsuit.
He expects to cut infrastructure costs by $1 billion a year.
This type of chaos is only the beginning, warns a former vice president of the company.
Employees described Hunger Games-like working conditions before they were laid off.
Musk brought in an inner circle of advisers from his other companies. Engineers were told to finish work over the weekend and VPs were told to make lists of who to keep and who to lay off.
The good news for employees was that they would be paid $54.20 per share for their stock that vested on November 1st.
There have been side effects to Musk's idea of changing the moderation of the content on the micro-blogging site.
When horror author Stephen King objected to a plan to charge $20 a month for verification, Musk lowered the price to $8.
Musk has been courting advertisers but they are cautious.
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