Discussion

• @zoeschiffer Zoë Schiffer on x

  NEW: Twitter just alerted employees that effective immediately, all office buildings are temporarily closed and badge access is suspended. No details given as to why.

• @mosquitocapital @mosquitocapital on x

  I've seen a lot of people asking “why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?” As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  And ... we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol

• @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x

  What I'm hearing from Twitter employees; It looks like roughly 75% of the remaining 3,700ish Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email. Even though the deadline has passed, everyone still has access to their systems.

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Hearing from multiple employees that the odds of Twitter breaking in the near future are very high.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  How do you make a small fortune in social media? Start out with a large one.

• @zoeschiffer Zoë Schiffer on x

  NEW: The designers leading Elon Musk's Blue verified project are out, along with the lead web engineer. Many Twitter employees who maintained critical infrastructure have resigned. This is going to look like a very different company tomorrow.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @stoolpresidente The best people are staying, so I'm not super worried

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Twitter's Slack currently has hundreds of employees giving the 🫡 emoji, meaning they decided to not stay for Musk's “Twitter 2.0” cultural reset. The company had just under 3,000 employees remaining before the deadline to say “yes” or not hit 20 min ago.

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Story to be updated soon with more: Am hearing that several “critical” infra engineering teams at Twitter have completely resigned. “You cannot run Twitter without this team,” one current engineer tells me of one such group. Also, Twitter has shut off badge access to its offices.

• @dmofengineering @dmofengineering on x

  From: @twittereng To: @elonmusk Subject: https://twitter.com/...

• @dimeford Pete Haas on x

  Ex-Twitter employees pitching investors next week. #RIPTwitter https://twitter.com/...

• @hayskali Kali Hays on x

  Sooo I'm told by two people that the entirety of Twitters payroll department has resigned/not elected to sign up for Elons Twitter 2.0

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  A few things: 1. Depending on how much critical staff has left & where — it's possible tho not probable the service could shut down at any time & for a short or long time. Relax as it used to do this a lot with the dreaded fail whale logo (see old & new one). It usually restores.…

• @loudmouthjulia Julia Alexander on x

  Thinking about this @reckless thought today. Remove the hysteria and the memes and the understandable emotional reaction to what's happening here, and this feels like the most accurate approach to how our relationship with sites and platforms should exist. https://twitter.com/...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Word inside Twitter is that A LOT of employees are not saying “yes” to staying at Musk's “extremely hardcore Twitter 2.0.” He has been meeting today with engineers to convince them to stay. His deadline to decide to stay or leave expired 6 min ago. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @WholeMarsBlog Record numbers of users are logging in to see if Twitter is dead, ironically making it more alive than ever!

• @tweetsbyparker Parker Lyons on x

  💙🫡 https://twitter.com/...

• @mollyjongfast Molly Jong-Fast on x

  It's time to consider the very real possibility that he is not a genius https://twitter.com/...

• @jenmsft @jenmsft on x

  Guess we're gonna find out https://twitter.com/...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Am hearing the number of Twitter resignations today is likely over 1,000, though unclear as not all are posting their decision. Some teams, such as the engineering team that manages Twitter's core system libraries, are completely gone now. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @kenchengcomedy @kenchengcomedy on x

  banks in 1929: well look at how many people want to visit our banks right now https://twitter.com/...

• @nitashatiku Nitasha Tiku on x

  !!! “I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers,” “There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.” https://www.washingtonp…

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  musk spent Thursday in meetings across different divisions of Twitter, making personal appeals to the *many* employees attempting to resign. His pitch, paraphrased: “I know how to win. If you want to win, stay and work for me.” w/@RMac18 https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @scottjshapiro @scottjshapiro on x

  This guy has never gotten anything right. I'm gonna miss him. https://twitter.com/...

• @zoeschiffer Zoë Schiffer on x

  Elon Musk and his team have a list of Twitter employees who signed the offer indicating they want to stay at Twitter 2.0. Those names are in a spreadsheet. Now they're trying to figure out who's NOT on the sheet, who is on parental leave, who's actively resigning in Slack...

• @bgurley Bill Gurley on x

  This is also why everyone rooting for Twitter to “functionally fail” are going to be disappointed. The company had 1,000 employees in 2012 and had 200 MAUs. And the systems are way better now. If they go back to that count they will survive. You are NOT seeing the “fail whale.”

• @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x

  Pink Floyd's “Wish You Were Here,” employees signing off a video call while Musk is pitching his vision, a wave of 🫡 emojis. Inside Decision Day at Twitter where hundreds of people may have just resigned. (w/ @MikeIsaac, @dmccabe & @kateconger) https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @piersmorgan Piers Morgan on x

  Could all the people currently whining about ‘the death of Twitter’ since @elonmusk bought it... just leave Twitter?

• @mattbinder Matt Binder on x

  all the why Elon Musk bought Twitter theories are overthinking it. it's simple. Musk is in a right wing filter bubble. he bought Twitter believing their problems were real & that others felt the same this is what happens when you have a lot of money & live in fantasy land

• @rickymar49 Ricardo Martinez on x

  Elon when he becomes the only employee at Twitter HQ https://twitter.com/...

• @gianmarcosoresi Gianmarco on x

  Imagine people who died on the titanic finding out we compared that to this

• @zoeschiffer Zoë Schiffer on x

  Offices will reopen on November 21st. In the meantime: “Please continue to comply with company policy by refraining from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere.”

• @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x

  Lets put this into perspective — at the beginning of this month, Twitter had 7,400 employees. Barely half way through the month, if 75% do actually stick to their decision today, the company will have shrunk by a whopping ~88%.

• @mims Christopher Mims on x

  True story: Twitter once tried to acquire Instagram! The two were like peanut butter and jelly. Did you know that in the old days if you posted an Insta link to Twitter, the image automatically displayed on here? Then Facebook bought Insta and killed that feature. https://twitter…

• @parismarx Paris Marx on x

  I know Elon Musk's whole reputation is built on taking credit for work he didn't do, but this is really taking it to another level. https://twitter.com/...

• @brianstelter Brian Stelter on x

  Returning to the Fail Whale era https://twitter.com/...

• @chrislhayes Chris Hayes on x

  Rhymes with “Schmabor is the source of all value” https://twitter.com/...

• @cstross Charlie Stross on x

  THREAD. (Why twitter is likely to fail hard—and probably irrecoverably—in the coming days to weeks.) https://twitter.com/...

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Gotta give Elon credit. He's managed to lower expectations from: “Wow, he's going to make Twitter so much better.” to “Wow, Twitter's still online.”

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Business as traffic accident is not, per se, a winning formula. https://twitter.com/...

• @anthonyha Anthony Ha on x

  Gonna be real anticlimactic if Twitter's death looks more like a website getting shittier and shittier every day, rather than a glorious fiery crash

• @cz_binance @cz_binance on x

  The more successful you are, the more people FUD about you. FUD makes you stronger, not weaker. https://twitter.com/...

• @kaderariz @kaderariz on x

  At least 30% of all my feed is now the worst ads I have ever seen. This is probably how the world will look after the rapture

• @daithaigilbert David Gilbert on x

  As @dellcam discovered, Twitter seems to be stopping users from posting the URL for mastodon in tweets. I just tried it and got this message https://twitter.com/...

• @jenplusplus @jenplusplus on x

  I resigned today from my job at Twitter. I have nothing but love and admiration for the incredibly kind and talented people I have worked with over these past 4 years. #LoveWhereYouWorked 💙

• @satanjeev Satanjeev Banerjee on x

  And just like that, after 12 years, I have left Twitter. I have nothing but love for all my fellow tweeps, past and present. A thousand faces and a thousand scenes are flashing through my mind right now - I love you Twitter and I'll forever bleed blue 🫡💙

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  7. Will life go on? Why yes & so may Twitter if Elon gets his head out of his red-pilled ass, focuses and stops with a performative weak sauce Trump impersonation. Even Trump sucks at being Trump these days (see last speech). In any case, you can stay or go. It's a free Internet.…

• @gartenberg Michael Gartenberg on x

  Banks who loaned Musk money for Twitter spending this afternoon writing down their loans before the weekend.

• @michaelvirks Michael Virks on x

  @ZoeSchiffer Good to hear that Elon Musk has reached the John-McAffee-on-homemade-psychadelics- in-Belize stage of paranoia so quickly

• @peterclowes Peter Clowes on x

  Why I left @twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0 🧵

• @derflecha Der Flecha on x

  A new wave of Twitter employees began posting farewells Thursday, after the deadline passed on an ultimatum Elon Musk issued for them to commit to “long hours at high intensity” or leave https://www.wsj.com/...

• @daithaigilbert David Gilbert on x

  This tweet from @ZoeSchiffer about more departures from Twitter shows up on her timeline, but, when you click through to it, it disappears.....is this a glitch? Or similar to the situation when people who shared a tweet from @oneunderscore__ were locked out of their accounts? htt…

• @rakyll @rakyll on x

  Long time from now, we'll be all gone. On the other hand, Twitter will forever be remembered as the first tool in human history that taught masses how distributed systems fail.

• @kazweida Kaz Weida on x

  Seems like a platform that is home to journalists but is also allowing the government who murdered a journalist to access user data might be a security and safety issue for... well... everyone. https://twitter.com/...

• @espiers Elizabeth Spiers on x

  I am not a management genius but if you go into a company as CEO where people already kind of distrust you, then you do a bunch of shit that makes you distrust you more, in public, and then you tell them bend the knee by 5pm or leave, it shouldn't be surprising when they leave.

• @espiers Elizabeth Spiers on x

  It's interesting that the narcissist who owns this site now thinks all the journalists will be lost without it—as if Twitter is their primary mode of publishing and not the publications they write for, which is why he hates them.

• @shashj Shashank Joshi on x

  Update: we've entered the “40-mile convoy is stuck outside Kyiv” phase of the take-over. https://twitter.com/...

• @dmofengineering @dmofengineering on x

  Hi, distributed systems engineer here. Systems like Twitter are both resilient, and fragile. https://twitter.com/...

• @dmitryopines Dmitry Grozoubinski on x

  Some Twitter employees didn't want to stick around working 80+ hour weeks in “extremely hardcore” mode failing to develop imaginary engineering solutions to commercial and political problems as their boss alternates between publicly abusing them and making those problems worse?

• @over_rated @over_rated on x

  “He was asking his employees to work just 80 hours a week? What an amateur! It should have been more.” - Most managers in Indian companies

• @roxytall Roxy on x

  i love how no one has suggested going over to facebook, we've all unanimously written it off as boomer hell and would rather have nothing lmao

• @alexhern @alexhern on x

  “You're saying you know more about running a business than the man who build the Hughes aircraft company? Who broke multiple airspeed records? Who produced Scarface and The Racket? Now shut up and help me put these tissue boxes on my feet to keep out the germs

• @snazzyq Quinn Nelson on x

  Elon Musk is pretty much like Steve Jobs with the difference being that Steve Jobs was competent.

• @chrislhayes Chris Hayes on x

  Many people are saying Elon Musk should run for RNC chair.

• @frankieboyle @frankieboyle on x

  I suppose without Twitter everyone will just take this behaviour into real life and get punched in the head a lot

• @nettaaaaaaaa Johnetta Elzie on x

  Lying until the end is wild 😭 https://twitter.com/...

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  *people gather in my yard to watch my house burn* me: wow, i've never had this many visitors before

• @cryptoterra Bris Angel on x

  is kissinger seriously going to outlive Twitter

• @imbadatlife Luke Bailey on x

  incredible indictment that everyone is desperately looking for somewhere to meet and talk to people, and no one has even mentioned Zuckerberg's $70bn metaverse

• @mehdirhasan Mehdi Hasan on x

  Think of people around the world tonight who need Twitter to get their voices heard, to document human rights abuses and injustices, to get attention, expose war crimes, and more. All of them could be about to be cut off because the world's richest man wanted to own the libs.

• @peterbrannen1 @peterbrannen1 on x

  If Twitter crashes and you need to find me, the hell you will. I've got a two day head start on you, which is more than I need. I speak a dozen languages, know every local custom, I'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see me again.

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  Apropos of nothing in particular. But including contractors Twitter had over 13k people. https://twitter.com/...

• @rk Ryan King on x

  Fifteen years(!) and two days after its original launch, I am re-launching https://istwitterdown.com/ Blog post with more context: https://theryanking.com/...

• @bgurley Bill Gurley on x

  One of the reasons companies routinely do 3 layoffs instead of one is they are almost all afraid to “cut too much.” They fear “hitting bone.” But they VASTLY underestimate how resilient companies actually are. Companies endure. (More).

• @samadlerbell Sam Adler-Bell on x

  Say what you will about Elon's management style, but before he took over all you guys posted was “ugh another day on this hell site” and now you're all like “ah twitter the extraordinary place where I met all my best friends, started my career, had sex for the first time”

• @hayskali Kali Hays on x

  Elon Musk called in his SpaceX CFO for some meetings and calls held today to try and convince people to stay by pitching Musk's vision for Twitter. Didn't work. Some people are still around in accounting though, I'm told.

• @grady_booch Grady Booch on x

  This will be a fascinating case study in the resilience of a web-centric system at global elastic scale: how long will it run along with little human intervention, and what will be its modes of failure. This is the way the bird ends: not with a bang, but with a whimper. https://t…

• @caitlinmoran Caitlin Moran on x

  SPACE KAREN

• @bionca @bionca on x

  After 5 incredible years at Twitter, today I'm resigning. What a ride! Twitter was my dream job & I'm so fortunate to have lived it. Until next time, ✌🏽 & 💙. #LoveWhereYouWorked 🫡 https://twitter.com/...

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Pretty much what earlier employee internal polls showed. Brutal and entirely self-inflicted. Twitter will be run on a skeleton crew that's ~10-15% of what it was 3 weeks ago. So much institutional knowledge walked out the door. https://twitter.com/...

• @jenkirkman @jenkirkman on x

  The movie ends with us realizing that it's been broken the whole time. https://twitter.com/...

• @wongmjane Jane Manchun Wong on x

  When someone is dying, the brain activity surges too https://twitter.com/...

• @redsteeze Stephen L. Miller on x

  Guess which one is getting more attention? https://twitter.com/...

• @brayniac Brian on x

  After 8+ years, I still don't know what to say in this Tweet. It was one hell of a ride and a highlight of my career. 🫡💙 #LoveWhereYouWorked https://twitter.com/...

• @ildannymoore Daniel Moore on x

  I worry less about the site permanently going down and more about how everything that's happening may result in a horrifying security incident

• @salehamohsin Saleha Mohsin on x

  NEWS: The US govt continues to seek information on private agreements Musk made w/ foreign investors that now hold stakes in Twitter, and whether those deals allow them to access users' personal data, sources tell me, @DanielPFlatley + @JenniferJJacobs https://www.bloomberg.com/.…

• @elibelly @elibelly on x

  guess I just said goodbye to the ghost of my dream job forever? 🫡💙 Tweeps, you are world-class #LoveWhereYouWorked #OneTeam #NoTeam https://twitter.com/...

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  Twitter was very badly run for a decade, had far too many people, often the wrong people, and needed a complete culture reset. It was a turn-around. But... this is a very high risk way of doing that. And assuming it doesn't disintegrate, will the right people now want to join?

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Another sw engineer was telling me he was *really* excited when Elon took over, and could not wait to work with him. Then was confused why Elon treated Twitter so poorly. Eg didn't even talk with staff. Then this person was fired as part of the 50%. Why let go even supporters?

• @jasonschreier Jason Schreier on x

  Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter may be a disaster so far, but at least he got rid of all the bot spam https://twitter.com/search https://twitter.com/...

• @knrd_z @knrd_z on x

  Staying at a social media company 10+ years at middle six figures is, simply, middle class welfare. I realize it's frustrating because well over half the UMC workforce is welfare, but that needs to be upended too https://twitter.com/...

• @ericyamane @ericyamane on x

  Today was fucking hard — after almost 4 years, I've decided to leave Twitter. Sending ❤️ to all those who decided to leave and those who will stay. It was a real privilege working with you all and I've become a better person for it. Thank you 🫡 #LoveWhereYouWorked https://twitter…

• @pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings on x

  🫡 If this is right, Twitter is now down about *90%* of its staff in three weeks (down to about 900 from 7500) Make a plan. https://twitter.com/...

• @elienyc Elie Mystal on x

  Imagine seeing how this guy runs Twitter and still thinking “sure, I'll buy one of his cars. I'm sure it's safe.” https://twitter.com/...

• @goodpoliticguy @goodpoliticguy on x

  Elon really bought Twitter, walked in confidently like he was gonna nail this shit, fired a majority of employees, chaotically deployed shitty ideas, destroyed security infrastructure, imploded ad revenue then decided he doesn't wanna lead the company within TWO WEEKS MAN

• @esqueer_ Alejandra Caraballo on x

  I don't think Twitter will last through the weekend. Twitter is restricting employee access to all its buildings through the weekend with no reason given. The entire android team resigned. The world cup,the largest sporting event in the world, starts this weekend.

• @turmshrub @turmshrub on x

  (dming a mutual I made this week my full legal name) hey man hit me up. i consider you one of my closest friends

• @akaeljefe Alex Boro on x

  All people in San Francisco do at their overpaid tech jobs is eat donuts and shoot up heroin so this is no surprise https://twitter.com/...

• @mtracey Michael Tracey on x

  Every day: “RIP Twitter! Site's really imploding this time” Also every day: Site basically functions as normal, Elon reports record usage

• @wholemarsblog @wholemarsblog on x

  Elon and George Hotz are the only two employees left at Twitter apparently

• @saberspark @saberspark on x

  “maybe Elon might actually fix Twitter” 3 weeks later: https://twitter.com/...

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Twitter *cannot* afford to lose that many devs and keep operating. Heck, they have barely started hiring new ones, and those hires will not come through the door for several weeks! I'm assuming Elon will have to throw money at this: - Retention bonuses - Short-term contracts

• @markos Markos Moulitsas on x

  Prediction: Musk gets tired of owning the libs by destroying Twitter, unloads it for pennies on what he paid, and someone else brings it back to life. If not, someone will replicate it

• @drwhomoment @drwhomoment on x

  Twitter dies before we run out of Crazy Ass Moments in Doctor Who History. (2022) https://twitter.com/...

• @sacca @sacca on x

  Been trying to type what Twitter means to me and I can't see the screen. Whether it stays up or not, I'm devastating to see it so recklessly fucked by ego and vengeance. Thanks to all the characters who built this, and everyone who contributed their characters along the way.

• @kng Kelly on x

  After 8.5 years, I guess it's time to say goodbye 🫡 #OneTeam #LoveWhereYouWorked

• @benthompson Ben Thompson on x

  Quite the asymmetric bet being placed now: if Twitter continues to function the people who think it will be fine will be able to tweet about being right, but if it goes down the people predicting demise will have nowhere to celebrate! https://twitter.com/...

• @marcoarment Marco Arment on x

  At least if this place explodes, Tumblr and Instagram will stop being filled with screenshots of popular Twitter posts

• @neilcybart Neil Cybart on x

  In the coming days, Musk and friends will discover the % of Twitter employees that want to be part of his Twitter. It probably won't be a high %. No one joined Twitter with the expectation of one day working at a Musk company. Too much of a culture shock for them.

• @zackbornstein Zack Bornstein on x

  pre-elon twitter: pls free me from this hellsite post-elon twitter: Everyday with you all has been a gift. I owe my career, my friendships, and my marriage to this community. I've fostered compassion and activism each and everyday with you all, fighting the good fight (1/40)

• @goldengateblond Shauna on x

  tbh the fact that it's all held together this long is testament to the expertise of the people who ran it — many of whom were fired for the dumbest of reasons https://twitter.com/...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Several members of Twitter's “Command Center” org, which I'm told Musk's transition team identified as the lynchpin that keeps Twitter operating day-to-day, resigned today. Also entire key infra teams gone. Not good! https://twitter.com/...

• @cwarzel @cwarzel on x

  really telling that these chuds (who become vengeful and throw tantrums when they don't get their way) can't imagine that twitter employees who've spent chunks of their lives building and maintaing a service actually care about it wouldn't just torch it https://twitter.com/...

• @parkermolloy Parker Molloy on x

  Elon, last week: EVERYONE IN THE OFFICE! Elon, this week: NO ONE IN THE OFFICE! Elon, next week: SOME IN THE OFFICE, MINIATURE TWITTER VERIFIED BADGES FOR OTHERS https://twitter.com/...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Thread here is collecting resignation tweets from Twitter engineers, many of whom are senior / have been at the company for a long time https://twitter.com/...

• @wickman Brian Wickman on x

  after 12 1/2 hardcore years: gun, badge, flair 👋🏻 https://twitter.com/...

• @buccocapital @buccocapital on x

  Rumor is 75% rejected Elon's “extremely hardcore” proposal Would mean 88% of the company has left/been fired Honestly if he keeps this thing running with 10% of the staff, long enough to rebuild it, that would be bonkers More likely this place explodes. Nice knowing you all

• @chrisalbon Chris Albon on x

  By my count this is over 35 years of Twitter experience walking out the door in this video. https://twitter.com/...

• @aoc Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on x

  Hoping this doesn't happen ⬇️ but just in case: it's been wonderful tweeting with y'all! 🐣 As a backup, follow me on Instagram, same handle: @AOC - it's really me there, as it is here. Or sign up for emails, where I'll share any other platforms I join: https://www.ocasiocortez.co…

• @kofie @kofie on x

  Me and the homies trying to figure out how Pinterest work https://twitter.com/...

• @g4ys0n @g4ys0n on x

  https://twitter.com/...

• @mirpuris Sunil on x

  I still remember the first day I walked into Twitter for my interview and the recruiter walked me through the commons. This was 8.5 years ago Some places and people leave an impression on your life. There have been several such moments It's been real y'all! #lovewhereyouworked 🫡 …

• @joannastern Joanna Stern on x

  But where will employees sleep?! https://twitter.com/...

• @zhiheng_zhang Jason Zhang on x

  After a bit over 10 years and 2289 commits. I ended my watch in this bird app. #LoveWhereYouWorked https://twitter.com/...

• @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x

  As we're all very aware, folks on visas are stuck, so thats who makes up most of the roughly 25% (or less than 1,000....) expected to stay. The actual impact is not yet known — there have been no internal comms about what comes next. We're nearly 2 hours post deadline.

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Imagining the scene inside the Twitter War Room when they realized they asked everyone to come to the office but now have to shut down the office because almost everyone has quit. https://twitter.com/...

• @seyitaylor @seyitaylor on x

  I think Elon is going to try run twitter on 10% of the staff just to prove it can be done. Honestly, I'm rooting for him simply because I like the website that much.

• @neilcybart Neil Cybart on x

  Few other things: - Most people are underestimating how much Twitter can shrink and still do just fine. - There will be thousands of former Twitter employees willing to say pretty much anything to the press. Keep that in mind for the next few months.

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Unless something changes, Twitter's engineering workforce could be down by 90%, in just 3 weeks (!!!). Elon fired 50%. Then fired a few more for correcting him. Now 80% of the remaining 50% could take severance. Here's what I think will happen:

• @rahaeli @rahaeli on x

  The saddest thing when reading resignation tweets from #lovewhereyouworked is how many people have been at Twitter for 8, 10, 12 years. The sheer amount of institutional knowledge Elon is driving away is incalculable. Thank you to everyone who's leaving for everything you made.

• @denise_dewald Denise Dewald, MD on x

  Twitter is on autopilot like a Tesla 😬 https://twitter.com/...

• @avi_bueno Avi Bueno on x

  We should probably have a serious discussion about the ease with which a billionaire haphazardly purchased & immediately destroyed a company that employed 7,500 people and facilitated essential communication for hundreds of millions.

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Updates from @alexeheath on the Twitter staff that's all quit: multiple teams that run core services are all gone https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @tom_winter Tom Winter on x

  Twitter isn't going to disappear overnight to never be heard from people, relax. Big banks hold a ton of the debt and they will want something for their money. The site will remain online or will limp along until someone takes it over... Elon or no Elon.

• @peterjukes Peter Jukes on x

  Before Musk took over Twitter, you might have been forgiven for thinking he was a talented businessman, with idiosyncratic opinions, but a good eye for engineering and what people want. The last month has completely dispelled any lingering illusion https://twitter.com/...

• @alexvoica @alexvoica on x

  Since @elonmusk asked Twitter employees to be “extremely hardcore” or leave, a lot of people have asked me what it really means to be hardcore. I've spent more than a decade in the hardcore scene surrounded by engineers, so here's a brief explainer. https://twitter.com/...

• @aoc Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on x

  Shout out to all the workers at Twitter. You all built a vital place for connection and deserved so much better. Millions of people appreciate the space you built and the hard work that went into it. Thank you 💙

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  🏴‍☠️

• @nexqal Nick on x

  elon musk at twitter hq https://twitter.com/...

• @neilcybart Neil Cybart on x

  Was all of this early chaos avoidable? Feels like if it didn't happen now, it would have eventually happened over time. Most Twitter employees aren't going to fit in with the new culture. And yes, it does seem like Musk purposely wants to push out / kick out those individuals.

• @eliothiggins Eliot Higgins on x

  Twitter dying would be a really big blow to the open source investigation community. It really enabled a lot of sharing of information and collaboration that led to real impact. Bellingcat wouldn't have been able to build an audience without it.

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Looks like Elon actually overshot his goal of 75% layoffs. 25% of the 50% of employees left after the layoff is 12.5%. This means Elon got rid of 87.5% of full timers and 80% of Twitter contractors in about 3 weeks. Regardless of how it turns out, this is HBS case study worthy ht…

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  update: employees who were departing speculated that so many were leaving, along with their knowledge of how the product works, that the social network may have trouble fixing problems or updating systems during its normal operations.

• @patrick_wyman Patrick Wyman on x

  People don't have to do what you say, much less like you, just because you're a billionaire. Funny how that works https://twitter.com/...

• @chadloder Chad Loder on x

  “Can you buy Twitter and then delete it, please? xx” — text to Elon Musk from ex-wife, March 23, 2022 https://twitter.com/...

• @jaredlholt Jared Holt on x

  Not sure Twitter is ending (always iffy on stuff like this involving mega corporations) but hopefully by now we can realize that just because Elon Musk and his crew are rich, it doesn't mean they are good or smart in any traditional way.

• @0xfoobar @0xfoobar on x

  if ftx can run profitably on 30 employees then why does twitter need 7500

• @espiers Elizabeth Spiers on x

  This is the most epic demonstration of buying your own bullshit I think I've ever seen in tech. Elon thinks people will tolerate this kind of insanity because he's Elon. But the only people putting up with it now are people who have no choice bc they have to feed their families

• @carnage4life @carnage4life on x

  Facebook employees should start a petition for Elon to buy TikTok.

• @daveleeft Dave Lee on x

  Journalists moving from Twitter to Mastodon tonight — we've built a simple service to verify and share journalists' profiles across *any* Mastodon server. Verified accounts get a badge to signal authenticity. Apply here: https://www.presscheck.org/ https://twitter.com/...

• @b52malmet Barbara Malmet on x

  Elon locked the doors at Twitter headquarters in SF- re-opening Monday. Here's some about-to-be ex-employees who aren't “hardcore” enough. https://twitter.com/...

• @wholemarsblog @wholemarsblog on x

  I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing drinks in the Kitchen. Elon walked in and asked how many Red Bulls we had left. Then he made everyone who wanted to keep their job shotgun a red bull so they could prove they were “hardcore”. Most just left

• @grady_booch Grady Booch on x

  I have a sinking feeling about Twitter. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @jbarro Josh Barro on x

  It's generally a bad idea to offer a buyout to 100% of your staff, especially if the whole staff hates you https://twitter.com/...

• @esqueer_ Alejandra Caraballo on x

  I don't think Twitter will last through the weekend. Twitter is restricting employee access to all its buildings through the weekend with no reason given. The entire android team resigned. The world cup,the largest sporting event in the world, starts this weekend.

• @augustjpollak August J. Pollak on x

  Imagine being so unbelievably stupid that you dropped $44 billion on a company almost entirely to exert a display of your own ego and power to its employees and in doing so accidentally unionized them https://twitter.com/...

• @pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings on x

  Incredible stuff. Some people truly earning their salute emojis at the twittercorp https://twitter.com/...

• @junlper Transgender Marx on x

  elon bought twitter to completely ruin the website to cause an exodus of users back to tumblr to restore it to it's once holy roman empire status of social media

• @mazmhussain Murtaza Hussain on x

  Stumbling across old dril screenshots on a reddit forum five years from now https://twitter.com/...

• @djrothkopf David Rothkopf on x

  Yeesh. Can only imagine how this looks to Tesla or Space X investors. Familiar? https://twitter.com/...

• @johnfugelsang John Fugelsang on x

  “Mr. Musk and Twitter, which no longer has a communications department, did not respond to requests for comment.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @jasonschreier Jason Schreier on x

  No, Twitter probably won't just disappear tomorrow. What seems far more likely as a result of the staff exodus is that the site becomes much less pleasant to use — weird bugs, more spam, frequent crashes — and so people just stop logging on. Hopefully a viable alternative emerges…

• @brndxix @brndxix on x

  this is unemployed peoples 9/11

• @steinkobbe @steinkobbe on x

  Elon's main issue to fix on Twitter according to him is the bots, but it's only been a couple of weeks since he took over and I'm already getting at least twice as many crypto bot replies and scams in my DMs. Weird how firing most of the content mods doesn't help fight bots

• @popcrave @popcrave on x

  Elon Musk says that Twitter's best engineers are staying at the company and that he's “not super worried” about the platform shutting down. https://twitter.com/...

• @jon_prosser Jon Prosser on x

  few outcomes: 1) it's dead 2) elon sells it 3) elon humbles the fuck up and lets existing engineers run the ship, begs others to come back, and tries to rebuild either way, Twitter won't be the same

• @travisakers Travis Akers on x

  From one of the remaining Twitter employees: “It (Twitter) has about a week left before it's dead.”

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  Hahahah what hall of fame confusion https://twitter.com/...

• @hayskali Kali Hays on x

  In addition to the payroll team being gone, Twitter's entire US tax team is gone, I'm told, along with its financial reporting team. Not great.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @piersmorgan Seriously

• @billym2k Shibetoshi Nakamoto on x

  if twitter dies that means elon successfully fixed the bot problem

• @zoeschiffer Zoë Schiffer on x

  We're hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. Also, they're still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for.

• @anothercohen Alex Cohen on x

  I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices. Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.

• @brainiaq2000 Matt Miller on x

  It's been a ride https://twitter.com/...

• @joshuaphilll @joshuaphilll on x

  Oh shit lol. Twitter HQ in San Francisco tonight https://twitter.com/...

• @adambaldwin Adam Baldwin on x

  The developing pattern is confirmed. Not only are newly ex-Tweeps *relieved* that they've been fired, they're posting celebratory videos! “Yay!” https://twitter.com/...

• @thevivafrei Viva Frei on x

  Sincere question: You have been with the company for nearly a decade. That company has paid you for nearly a decade. And you refuse to click “yes” on a commitment to working hard to make sure that company continues to succeed? Come on my channel for an interview to discuss. https…

• @justinwolfers Justin Wolfers on x

  We're finally going to see a Musk product in self-driving mode.

• @phil_lewis_ Philip Lewis on x

  Meanwhile, a message projected on the side of Twitter headquarters tonight reads: “Elon Musk: mediocre manchild, pressurized privilege, petty racist, megalomaniac, worthless billionaire, bankruptcy baby, supreme parasite, petulant pimple, apartheid baby” https://twitter.com/...

• @minimaxir Max Woolf on x

  @ZoeSchiffer This is likely to prevent employees from sabotage but this just seems like it'll be more likely for them to do sabotage.

• @probirdrights @probirdrights on x

  Lock out of twitter office. can no longer pretend I have “got” mr. elons “nose” and make him cry

• @leyawn Leon on x

  my twitter badge still works lol i'm in the office chilling and eating snacks and unplugging every server i can find. and i got my three months severance

• @oliverdarcy Oliver Darcy on x

  Twitter has emailed staffers: “Hi, Effective immediately, we are temporarily closing our office buildings and all badge access will be suspended. Offices will reopen on Monday, November 21st. .. We look forward to working with you on Twitter's exciting future.”

• @minimaxir Max Woolf on x

  @ZoeSchiffer so they wont be able to do on-site SRE prep for the World Cup beforehand, great

• @paulskallas LindyMan on x

  Old pro wrestling trick: make the show about the show https://twitter.com/...

• @rakyll @rakyll on x

  I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. In a few hours, I had a call. Elon asked me to come back to the office and fix the SLOs to always display “100%”.

• @teamblind Blind on x

  All the CEOs are secretly thanking @elonmusk No one was doing any work since 2020, remember just 6 months ago people were asking about 4 day work weeks. Finally people are showing up to work and replying to emails after the industry wide earthquake. - Autodesk employee on 🅱️

• @robertwrighter Robert Wright on x

  I'd be charging like $4.5 million an hour for this service. https://twitter.com/...

• @goldman Jason Goldman on x

  Pretty critical of my own time working at Twitter. Lot of mistakes. But then again never had to shut off all access to the office after announcing a mandatory return to the office.

• @culturecrave @culturecrave on x

  A projection calling Elon Musk a ‘Space Karen’ and other things is being displayed outside of Twitter's headquarters https://twitter.com/...

• @airlineflyer Jason Rabinowitz on x

  Elon Musk: All Twitter employees must come to the office and work hardcore at all times Also Elon Musk: The office is closed because I don't know who I fired and who still works here, and for those left I don't trust you. Real galaxy brain billionaire management going on here. ht…

• @imani_barbarin @imani_barbarin on x

  It's literally like The Office... https://twitter.com/...

• @gia_vang Gia Vang on x

  New projection on Twitter's headquarter building now by a guy who calls himself a projection activist. #sanfrancisco https://twitter.com/...

• @keitholbermann Keith Olbermann on x

  They're terrified that WHO is going to sabotage the company? https://twitter.com/...

• @junlper Transgender Marx on x

  twitter headquarters: closed until further notice the media: reporting twitters immediate collapse and less than 500 employees remaining elon musk: 🤣🤣🤣🤣

• @austen Austen Allred on x

  Twitter now has early seed stage level company chaos but with thousands of employees and billions in revenue and entirely in the public eye. Absolutely wild to watch.

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Mirror mirror on the wall who's the sabotagiest of all. https://t.co/TUjP0yDQyn https://t.co/tnTSx7Uivg

• @iwriteok Robert Evans on x

  you are required to work in the office. also, due to fears of employee sabotage, everyone is banned from the offices. hard to see how twitter survived without this ground-breaking leadership. https://twitter.com/...

• @hilakleinh3 Hila Klein on x

  Footage of twitter employee stripping utilities from abandoned office https://twitter.com/...

• @popcrave @popcrave on x

  A new projection insulting Elon Musk is currently being displayed outside of Twitter's HQ. https://twitter.com/...

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Scoop: I am hearing far fewer than expected devs hit “yes”. Elon sent out an email relaxing remote working from the former draconian policy. I'm hearing he is having meetings w top engineers to convince them to stay. Sounds like playing hardball does not work. Ofc it doesn't. htt…

• @daveyalba Davey Alba on x

  New @TheTerminal - Musk has softened his work from home policy at Twitter. Email today: “Regarding remote work, all that is required for approval is that your manager takes responsibility for ensuring that you are making an excellent contribution.” 1/

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  “From my larger group of 50 people, 10 are staying, 40 are taking the severance. Elon set up meetings with a few who plan to quit.” I don't blame people quitting. They've been offered intimidation, ever-changing policies the last minute, long hours, and an ultimatum.

• @lisaabramowicz1 Lisa Abramowicz on x

  Not a great day for social media. Twitter is hemorrhaging staff and facing a possible national security review by Congress. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @ziadmdaoud Ziad Daoud on x

  “Twitter's internal communications channels filled with employees offering a salute emoji, a symbol for departing the company .. So many were leaving that the social network may have trouble fixing problems or updating systems during its normal operations” https://www.bloomberg.c…

• @janskudlarek Jan Skudlarek on x

  “Many more workers declined to sign on than he expected, potentially putting Twitter's operations at risk, according to people familiar with the matter.” 🤡 https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @topolk Terence on x

  EL. OH. EL. That dumb bastard. Glad to see that folks called his bluff. https://twitter.com/...

• @erinkwoo Erin Woo on x

  New: Ahead of today's deadline to stay or go, Elon Musk has softened Twitter's anti-remote work policy, in a possible sign he is concerned that too many people will quit the company, according to communications viewed by @theinformation. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...

• @conorsen Conor Sen on x

  This is what happens when your CEO mistakenly believes the economy/labor market are in recession and pushes his chips in on that view. https://twitter.com/...

• @summerson Cam on x

  they should all quit I love Twitter but these are human beings that deserve better https://twitter.com/...

• @carlquintanilla Carl Quintanilla on x

  “.. more are opting to leave than Musk anticipated, leading him and others to attempt to convince colleagues to stay, according to people familiar with the matter.” ⁦@KurtWagner8⁩ ⁦@business⁩ https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @davepell Dave Pell on x

  Elon demanded Hardcore. Now he's begging for PG-13. https://twitter.com/...

• @pt Parker on x

  For future reference, the correct staff reduction sequence is to 1) figure out who you need, 2) give a hardcore ultimatum, 3) do layoffs. If you do this in reverse order bad things happen. Thank you for attending my TEDxManagement talk. https://twitter.com/...

• @biancoresearch @biancoresearch on x

  He pushed harder than anyone else, even Goldman/JPM, to return to “5-0” (full-time). Employees called his bluff, @elonmusk backed down. Does this officially mark the end of the full-time office job? Is it now permanently hybrid/WFH? @I_Am_NickBloom https://www.bloomberg.com/...?

• @lindyli Lindy Li on x

  Elon Musk is a walking, talking billboard in favor of making billionaires pay their fair share Just as the Koch billionaire donor network is an ad for the urgent need to raise taxes on filthy rich extremists bent on hijacking our democracy https://twitter.com/...

• @daveyalba Davey Alba on x

  There is a real sense that Elon & co are trying very hard in these last few hours to convince people to stay.

• @mmasnick Mike Masnick on x

  Lol. When you surround yourself with yes men and bootlickers, you don't realize that no one good actually wants to sign your stupid “I'm hardcore and I want to subject myself to the whims of the mad king.” https://twitter.com/...

• @mshannahmurphy Hannah Murphy on x

  I'm told Ella Irwin, VP of Twitter health products and services team, has been appointed the new head of trust and safety - Yoel Roth's replacement Meanwhile dozens of employees are announcing on Slack that they are quitting, rather than accepting Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum 🫡

• @mattnavarra Matt Navarra on x

  Twitter Finds a New Head of Trust and Safety Twitter executive Ella Irwin will take over as the head of trust and safety, replacing Yoel Roth Irwin joined Twitter in June as a vice president of product focused on health and Twitter services https://www.theinformation.com/ ...