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• @janakj@mastodon.social Janak J Parekh on mastodon

  Esther Crawford is out at Twitter in a Saturday night round of layoffs: https://www.theverge.com/...  1. Even the most loyal Twitter employees (she was famous for tweeting a pic of her sleeping in the office a few months ago) seem to be vulnerable now. …

• @BenHouston3D@mastodon.gamedev.place Ben Houston on mastodon

  @Techmeme Do these abrupt and constant firings happen at Elon Musk's other companies?  Wouldn't these constant rounds of layoffs make everyone too anxious about losing their jobs to really dedicate themselves to doing good work?

• @EboMike@mastodon.social Michael Krehan on mastodon

  Esther Crawford, who proudly slept in the Twitter office to meet some arbitrary deadline Elon made up, has apparently been fired.  I hope that some day people will understand that killing yourself for your employer is pointless.

• @ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social Chris Pirillo on mastodon

  @Techmeme ...there are seemingly more characters in a tweet than there are actual Twitter employees at this point.

• @jpanzer@mastodon.social John Panzer on mastodon

  @Techmeme sucking up to a narcissist only gets you so far before things blow up.

• @Barredo@mastodon.social Alex Barredo on mastodon

  @Techmeme should have slept less in the office

• @atomicpoet@mastodon.social Chris Trottier on mastodon

  Head of Twitter Blue, Esther Crawford, was just fired from Twitter.  This is her first tweet since the news broke.  —  I'm not jeering or mocking her.  —  But her “optimism” was a mistake, and her hard work was pointless. …

• @mdekuijper Martijn on x

  Waking up to find I've been locked out of my email. Looks like I'm let go. Now my Revue journey is really over 🫡

• @esthercrawford @esthercrawford on x

  The worst take you could have from watching me go all-in on Twitter 2.0 is that my optimism or hard work was a mistake. Those who jeer & mock are necessarily on the sidelines and not in the arena. I'm deeply proud of the team for building through so much noise & chaos. 💙

• @zoeschiffer Zoë Schiffer on x

  Hearing that the Twitter layoffs last night were well above 50 and hit multiple departments including engineering. If you know more, get in touch.

• @ellagirwin Ella Irwin on x

  @esthercrawford Thank you for working so hard to help lay the foundation for Twitter 2.0 Esther. You will be missed.

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Lots of speculation among ex employees that Musk must be about to install a whole new regime and that's why he is cleaning house. Otherwise the cuts don't make sense. “Hard to keep the lights on with the people who are still left,” one ex manager told me.

• @renegadecut Leon Thomas on x

  the firings will continue until morale improves the firings will continue until morale improves the firings will continue until morale improves the firings will continue until morale improves https://twitter.com/...

• @thestuffofmemes Laurie Charles on x

  Don't worry Esther you may have sacrificed your dignity and become an international laughing stock but at least you created nothing of value https://twitter.com/...

• @zoeschiffer Zoë Schiffer on x

  Source: Esther Crawford, who has become one of the most influential leaders at Twitter after Musk's takeover, is out as chief executive of Twitter Payments

• @bestofdyingtwit @bestofdyingtwit on x

  whoa https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @cherthedev Cher Scarlett on x

  Women: do not lean in. Sleeping in the office as a leader sets a horrible precedent for employees to follow and that is an abusive expectation. This is how you become an abuser of employees yourself. https://twitter.com/...

• @ujuanya Uju Anya on x

  Esther Crawford slept on her office floor to deliver for her company but was still tossed out like dirty bath water. Don't know who needs to hear this, but live for yourself and not any institution. Your job won't ever love you. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @erinkwoo Erin Woo on x

  NEW: Twitter laid off at least 50 employees in a Saturday night wave of layoffs, including deep cuts to many engineering teams https://www.theinformation.com/ ...

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  Esther was a Musk loyalist who parroted his talking points. She also famously encouraged sleeping at the office https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Esther Crawford, who has been leading Twitter's product org and posted a photo of herself sleeping on the floor of the office early on in Musk's takeover, was laid off this weekend. Sounds like basically all of the remaining product org was cut as well.

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Hearing Twitter has fewer than a dozen employees left working on consumer product and design. A real exercise in tearing a company down to the studs.

• @lorencrowe @lorencrowe on x

  This now-laid off Twitter exec enabled a conspiracy-addled, homophobic cry bully as he made this platform a safe space for seditionists, white supremacists, and insurrectionists. The world is worse of because of her greed and her poor character. Don't sell out. https://twitter.co…

• @whatawhale @whatawhale on x

  Cue the personal news tweet: Today was my last day at @Twitter. It's impossible to try and put all of my emotions into words. I've learned so much and I'm so grateful for everyone I've had the opportunity to meet. Nobody in the world quite like Tweeps 💙🫡 https://twitter.com/...

• @silvermanjacob Jacob Silverman on x

  How long can Twitter keep functioning as is? Frequent technical issues, understaffed, closing data centers, employees not paid, office rent unpaid, selling off furniture and appliances, $1b in annual debt service. And something about a desperately insecure maniac CEO. https://twi…

• @skipper Sloane on x

  who's going to pay for their Slack? oh wait https://twitter.com/...

• @profmjcleveland Margot Cleveland on x

  Amazing how few people are needed when you stop running CIA propaganda and censoring Americans. https://twitter.com/...

• @martinsfp @martinsfp on x

  Wow. She was the ‘sleep where you work’ exec who went all-in on Musk-Twitter. https://twitter.com/...

• @radishharmers Sridhar Ramesh on x

  You essentially cheered on as working conditions were made worse for everyone around you, implicitly or explicitly saying people who wished for better were not working hard enough. That is why they now jeer, mock, and cheer at you also finding yourself on the receiving end of it.…

• @davekarpf Dave Karpf on x

  The inevitable tv series about Elon-Twitter is also going to be a Highlander reboot. https://twitter.com/...

• @momochenonline Yanning Chen on x

  Happy to leave this shit show 🤣 https://twitter.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Watching this play out in real time in public is giving me weird deja vu to Yahoo/Uber execs who defended the system under shitty CEOs, while strafing accurate reporting, until they did not. Self-justification in tech always trumps simply saying oops guess that did not work out. …

• @nickstatt Nick Statt on x

  Truly thought I had seen the lowest of the low out of Twitter but firing the viral “I sleep in the office” loyalist, one of the most vocal and prominent Elon defenders on here, somehow adds an all-new layer of despicable to the whole thing. https://twitter.com/...

• @rmondello Ricky Mondello on x

  I hope she gets to keep her sleeping bag. https://twitter.com/...

• @atrupar Aaron Rupar on x

  Esther spent months carrying water and debasing herself for Twitter's new ownership. This is how she is repaid. https://twitter.com/...

• @riptari Natasha on x

  Don't sleep at work? https://twitter.com/...

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  @ZoeSchiffer This is surprising to me. My guess was she'd be amongst the last ones standing... can't think of anyone who was visibly more committed to operating in this new model.

• @kurtwagner8 Kurt Wagner on x

  It appears a few founders were laid off in this round. Twitter had previously avoided laying off most of the founders they acquired to avoid expediting the vesting of their stock grants https://twitter.com/...

• @tomaxwell Thomas Maxwell on x

  One of Elon's biggest supporters at Twitter has been canned https://twitter.com/...

• @islivingston Ian Livingston on x

  That is THE Esther Crawford https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @hunterw Hunter Walker on x

  So, last night, in addition to signaling his support for racism, @elonmusk was firing people en masse. https://twitter.com/...

• @trentonjkennedy Trenton Kennedy on x

  A certain person getting laid off reminds me that our jobs never give us what we give them. And, what matters most is the people who do the work with us, and to sideline them in the name of a job often proves to be a bad choice.

• @jgownder J. P. Gownder on x

  It appears that being “hardcore” and sleeping at the office isn't enough to prevent yourself from being laid off on a Saturday night from Twitter. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  This is like watching Sucession but with really bad dialogue: https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Imagine sleeping on the floor of your office to ship Twitter Blue only to be laid off on the weekend. https://twitter.com/...

• @evan_rosenfeld Evan Rosenfeld on x

  Twitter product manager Esther Crawford no longer has a job at the company following another wave of layoffs. Crawford headed various projects including the company's Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter's forthcoming payments platform. https://www.theverge.com/…

• @erinkwoo Erin Woo on x

  nyt reporting that around 200 employees, or roughly 10% of what was left of twitter's workforce, were cut last night https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @dancow Dan Nguyen on x

  Rest in peace queen 😴 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @mattnavarra Matt Navarra on x

  Wow. No one is safe then. https://twitter.com/...

• @justin_ca30 @justin_ca30 on x

  Empty sycophant and suck-up @EstherCrawford traded her pride and integrity to Elon Musk for a pink slip. Why do fools think loyalty to people devoid of morality or ethics will be re-paid? https://www.theverge.com/...

• @cubicleapril @cubicleapril on x

  @ZoeSchiffer a real shocker that sleeping in the office wasn't enough

• @lenubienne Nani on x

  I, for one, am shocked that sleeping at work and ignoring your family to continue bootlicking for a megalomaniac nazi didn't save your job. https://twitter.com/...

• @kvlly Kelly Vaughn on x

  Your company does not care about the lengths you'll go to keep it running. https://twitter.com/...

• @blader Siqi Chen on x

  i can think elon is doing a comically bad job with twitter and also think the people who are in her replies schadenfreuding are mostly sad people angry at themselves, who enjoy tearing others down to make themselves feel a little bigger. https://twitter.com/...

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  A lot of the loyalists were definitely thinking “oh well Elon's history of lying won't affect Me” when he said that he was done laying off people in November last year https://twitter.com/...

• @mdekuijper Martijn on x

  Thank you, Elon! https://twitter.com/...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Worth noting that Musk has not introduced a new stock comp structure since he took over. Twitter is still trying to hire back engineers from previous cuts. Everyone is working for less money, and now more cuts are hitting on a weekend without warning.

• @caylenb Mr. Goofus on x

  when you need to put a sunk cost fallacy on your linkedin: https://twitter.com/...

• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  I stand by this tweet: When you align yourself with people who have no integrity and you double-down on it for your own gains, you reap what you sow.

• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  I deleted some tweets. I'm not going to celebrate people getting fired, even people that publicly had zero empathy when people I'm friends with were laid off in the middle of the night and they tried to hold a standup anyway. But I'm not going to mourn those people being laid off…

• @hawaiidelilah @hawaiidelilah on x

  Sleeping on the office floor is not enough. https://twitter.com/...

• @iancoldwater @iancoldwater on x

  Performatively sleeping at the office doesn't make the company love you back. https://twitter.com/...

• @miketaddow Mike Taddow on x

  this woman slept on the floor at twitter hq in a boot-licking scenario and still got yeeted by the boot owner lmaooo. hate to see it etc etc https://twitter.com/...

• @jamesrbuk James Ball on x

  The beatings will continue until morale improves https://twitter.com/...

• @anthony Anthony DeRosa on x

  Elon Musk's Twitter laid off dozens of employees Saturday in what is at least the eighth round of job cuts since Musk took over the social network in late October. The cuts aim to offset a plunge in revenue following Musk's takeover https://www.theinformation.com/ ...

• @martinsfp @martinsfp on x

  Waited a painful number of seconds for my Twitter feed to refresh, only to see this. 🙄 https://twitter.com/...