Musk’s Ultimatum Results in Mass Exodus
On Thursday , Musk told his employees stay with the company “working long hours at high intensity” or quit with three months’ severance pay.
So many quit that Musk closed the office until Monday.
Please consider Musk’s ‘Hardcore’ Ultimatum Sparks Exodus, Leaving Twitter at Risk
Elon Musk gave Twitter Inc. employees an ultimatum to either commit to the company’s new “hardcore” work environment or leave. Many more workers declined to sign on than he expected, potentially putting Twitter’s operations at risk, according to people familiar with the matter.
So many employees decided to take severance that it created a cloud of confusion over which people should still have access to company property. Twitter closed its offices until Monday, according to a memo viewed by Bloomberg.
Musk tried, in the final hours before his deadline, to convince people to stay. Key staff were brought into meetings as the Thursday evening deadline neared to hear pitches on the social network’s future, according to people familiar with the matter. Musk, who had earlier said he was strictly against remote work, also sent a follow-up email Thursday softening his tone.
It wasn’t enough. Twitter’s internal communications channels filled with employees offering a salute emoji, which has become a symbol for departing the company. Former staff tweeted the salute publicly, too, along with their internal Slack messages.
Twitter Decay Underway
Twitter is increasingly vulnerable to hacks, bugs that can’t be fixed, and of course the bot storm.
Musk’s solution so far is to charge 8 dollars for Twitter Blue, now cancelled, fire half the staff, then annoy many of the rest so much that they quite.
Bloomberg reports Twitter Staff Wipeout Under Musk Spurs Fear Site Will Decay
Twitter Inc.’s mass exodus of employees leaves the platform vulnerable to a broad range of malfunctions. The social network will succumb to a major glitch at some point, technologists predict. It’s just a matter of when.
The social network’s staff has shrunk to a fraction of its size since Elon Musk took over at the end of October, through layoffs and resignations. Musk this week asked employees to sign on to a more “hardcore” version of their jobs or leave; astonishing numbers opted out.
Multiple teams that were critical for keeping the service up and running are completely gone, or borrowing engineers from other groups, according to people familiar with the matter. That includes infrastructure teams to keep the main feed operational and maintain tweet databases. #RIPTwitter trended on the site, as users and departed employees predicted an imminent shutdown and said their goodbyes.
The complexity of these systems means they may require constant tweaking, maintenance and institutional knowledge of the way things are set up. Small bugs spiral into bigger bugs if not fixed — and Twitter’s is a system with more than 1,000 micro-services, said one former Twitter employee, who declined to be named talking about internal matters. Bugs must be patched or they spiral into threats for users’ security and data.
Musk Complains About Bots
Musk does a poll on reinstating Trump and the bots take over.
The bot attack is impressive to watch!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022
Lean Nothing
It’s to draw them out, not prove any point
— Keith (@KeithTheKeiser) November 19, 2022
Is the point that Musk cannot fix the problems? I don’t understand the poll in the first place. This is a decision Musk has to make, not a mass of bots.
I am plagued by respondent bots like these.
How hard can it be to detect such accounts: pic.twitter.com/s33fRZlzSC
— Klaus Hartnegg (@hartnegg) November 19, 2022
The bots following me seem to post coherent replies but if you click on any links they take you to a crypto scam of some sort.
I am not the only one. Danielle DiMartino Booth has been hit by a Bot Storm.
S.O.S. @elonmusk
How is it that I need to hire a full-time employee to BLOCK THE BOTS?!
Maybe set up a Go Fund Me page for verified users such that we can contribute to a fund to employ someone (a team of someones) to BLOCK THE BOTS?
I’d happily pay.
— Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth) November 17, 2022
Bot Storm
Hey @chigrl I’ve just been hit by the biggest bot storm EVER. Is it getting worse for you too?
— Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth) November 16, 2022
The last 30-hour bot storm does have me worried about this platform. I’d hate a world without all that I’ve learned here and pray @elonmusk has noble plans for the medium. Buying it to shut it down on the part of someone who gets his oxygen from Twitter is the stuff of madmen. https://t.co/o4VUB1xU7S
— Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth) November 18, 2022
#RIPTwitter
… this is not about me leaving, it’s about the platform as a whole being in danger because its management is going absolutely mental. #RIPTwitter https://t.co/XT38vvT1Ea
— Bish 🗽 (@thebishundercov) November 18, 2022
Sad Saga
This is a sad saga. I like Twitter. I get a lot of ideas of things to write about from Twitter.
Whatever Musk hoped to accomplish with his purchase of Twitter is in shambles.
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twitter was a censored liberal cesspool and echo chamber. the same folks who believed in the RUssia Russia collusion hoax are the same people brainwashed to take the lethal and ineffective death jab.funny part is they think they are following “science”. science does not follow your politics unfortunately for you. you got conned bigly and it damaged not only your health, but that of your family and your kids. not so funny now is it? the downside of bogus fact checks and misinformation.
It is only the beginning. Give him time to work out the bugs.
Ole elon needs to quit smoking that cali weed. I havent seen the cleaning house style in years. The new way say nothings going to change. Then slowly change start changing to give the employees time to adjust. If such a simple platform might to have been cheaper to copy. Maybe the last ceo had it figured out. Twitter has flaws as a business model and is not a money generator. Guess time will tell.
already removed, Twitter will drive out users who only want basic social
interaction and moderates who don’t want the hostilities, hyperbole and
conspiracy theories, Twitter will degrade to a renewed 8Chan.”
So they get a new job somewhere else? You can hire new ones and use some from his other companies. Twitter is not rocket science.
Dirty little secret: Starlink ain’t about giving Bubba in East Nowhere, Kansas a faster Pornhub connection. Rural broadband is only the first layer of the onion, and there are more layers to come than anyone can count, or even conceive of. And no, I am far from a Musk worshipper. I think this because I know the technology and have observed SpaceX actually getting ‘er done.
Never really thought much of the guy.
He was just the right guy in the right place at the right time.