After his messy first few weeks at the blue bird app, employees of the micro-messaging service are abandoning him. Earlier this week, Musk presented his new employees with an ultimatum: commit to a new "hardcore" Twitter, which involved working long hours at high intensity, or leave with three months of severance pay. Employees were given an extra day to work by the billionaire. When a lot of employees decided to leave, it was a rude awakening. Half of them had already been laid off. According to multiple outlets, hundreds of employees decided to take Musk's offer of separation and leave the company. Musk and his advisers held meetings with important employees to convince them to stay after the exodus. It is not clear how many employees have left, with the Washington Post saying it could be between 1,000 and 1,500. As of Friday, there were a lot of problems with the social media site. Three weeks ago, when Musk wasgrudgingly completing his $44 billion acquisition of the company, it was a very different company. In the U.S., the phrases #RIPTwitter, #GoodbyeTwitter, and #Twitterdown were used.
On Thursday night, Downdetector reported a surge of problems on the social networking site. While writing this article, Gizmodo also witnessed outages, including some that said a tweet was deleted only for it to reappear when opened in a different window. The reports continued to increase.
Musk told employees who wanted to stay that they needed to sign an online form by 5pm. The time is on Thursday. The people who didn't sign would get three months of unemployment compensation.
When Musk thought the majority of people would adapt to his demands for exceptionalism, that was a good idea. The billionaire's idea to document who was staying using a form has resulted in disaster.
Zo Schiffer, the managing editor of Platformer, said on Thursday that Elon Musk and his team have a list of employees who signed the offer. They are in a spreadsheet. They are trying to figure out who is on the sheet and who is on parental leave.
The platform could break shortly after Musk took it. The cuts to half of the site's staff significantly affected engineers maintaining its code base and left skeleton crews to handle any problems.
Multiple critical systems didn't have that as of Thursday Some had no engineering to maintain them.
There are six critical systems that no longer have any engineers, according to a former employee. The skeleton crew is gone. It will coast until it hits something and then stop.
The traffic and front end engineering teams, which are in charge of directing engineering requests to the correct back end services, were either completely gone or gone. The core system libraries were used by every engineer at the company.
One of the employees who quit told the outlet that they couldn't run the service without them.
One of Musk's big bets to transform the company that is set to be relaunched on November 29 received yet another blow this week as key staffers on its development team decided to leave the company. The lead web engineer and the designers of the Blue verified project were among those who quit on Thursday.
The verified checkmark has caused problems for the $8 a month subscription product. Multiple people using their Blue subscription to impersonate high profile accounts caused chaos on the platform.
Eli Lilly was involved in at least one incident. The user changed their name to Eli Lilly and said that they were free of diabetes. An estimated fifteen billion dollars was wiped out from the company's market cap by a fake verified account. As a result, Eli Lilly paused on its advertising on the platform.
The payroll team, financial reporting team, and U.S. tax team are all gone according to reports. The communications department no longer works for it.
The Washington Post reported that half of the trust and safety policy team quit. The majority of the people in charge of identifying misinformation are from this group. The company's content moderation team is heavily reliant on contractors. Over 4,000 contract employees were fired last week.
There are gaps in its ranks that could make it hard for it to comply with regulations. In Germany, social media companies are required to quickly take down posts that include hate speech. Failure to do so can result in large fines.
The consent decree issued to it by the FTC is up in the air. The decree requires the company to maintain a robust program to safeguard user information.
On Thursday, seven Democratic senators, including Richard Blumenthal, Ed Markey, Dianne Feinstein, and Elizabeth Warren, sent a letter to the FTC urging it to carefully oversee its consent decree with Musk.
The resignations of key executives in charge of cybersecurity, compliance, and trust and safety caused the FTC to be concerned.
The world's richest man is used to hearing adulation from his followers and inner circle. He probably didn't expect protesters to insult him on Thursday.
The insults include "bankruptcy baby", "petulant", "dictator's asskisser", "lawless", and "space Karen". The person behind the demonstration is not known.
Musk's paranoia probably didn't benefit from this. Musk and his team have locked the office buildings. Next Monday, offices will reopen.
We are hearing that the company is going to be sabotaged because of the fear of employees. They are still figuring out which workers they need to cut access to.
The chief twit tried to make a picture of calm on Thursday and Friday. He made fun of people who were aghast over the death of the social network and said the people who quit didn't worry him.
Musk said that the best people are staying.
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