Twitter has warned staff worldwide to expect an email at 9 a.m. PST Friday about “Your Role at Twitter” amid rumors of expected massive layoffs.
Washington Post reporter Will Oremus published the email sent to Twitter staff on Thursday following multiple reports that Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, planned to lay off 50% of its roughly 7,000 employees worldwide.
The email states: “If your employment is not affected, you will receive a notification via your Twitter email. If your employment is affected, you will receive a notification with next steps via your personal email.”
It also told employees it will temporarily close its offices and suspend access to the badge to ensure employee safety, as well as Twitter systems and customer data.
Here’s the first official communication from Twitter’s new leadership to its staff a week after Musk took over: a fun game where you can find out if you’re fired or not based on 9 a.m. tomorrow based on whether the email appears in your Twitter account or personal account. pic.twitter.com/tpJsAkiaHp
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) November 4, 2022
It has asked employees not to discuss confidential information on Twitter on social media, with the press or elsewhere.
Musk has proposed some sweeping changes to Twitter since he bought it last week for $44 billion. He’s also changed his profile name from “Chief Twit” to “Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator” since he proposed paying $8 a month for verified users to keep their Twitter handle blue.
His the last poll asks users whether advertisers should support free speech or political correctness. He had considered ending Twitter’s permanent ban on former US President Donald Trump, but last week sought to reassure advertisers that it would not be a “free speech for all”. . After that, General Motors suspended advertising on Twitter, and the Wall Street Journal has reported that General Mills and Audi have as well, with sources saying Pfizer and Modelez also plan to.
According to Reuters, Musk has asked Twitter teams to cut infrastructure costs by $1 billion by cutting between $1.5 million and $3 million a day from servers and cloud services.
Musk is also looking to bring back Twitter’s Vine short-form video service, which the company killed in 2016 but now looks promising in light of TikTok’s influence on the social media landscape.
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Platformer reports that Revue, a newsletter platform Twitter acquired in 2021, will shut down by the end of the year, while the New York Times reported that Twitter is considering whether to let users pay to send direct messages to its users. high profile.
According to The Guardian, Twitter staff on Thursday evening began reporting to the platform that they had lost access to their emails, laptops and company Slack accounts.
