The tech company is struggling to retain workers after Musk demanded employees sign a pledge to work ‘long hours at high intensity’
The Elon Twitter chaos continues.
The crisis at Twitter reached new heights on Friday as hundreds of employees were reported to have rejected Elon Musk’s ultimatum to keep working for the business, threatening its ability to keep operating.
As the company temporarily closed its offices to staff, Twitter users began saying their goodbyes and linking to accounts on other platforms.
#RIPTwitter, #TwitterDown, Mastodon and Myspace were all trending on the platform after the deadline passed on Musk’s ultimatum for the remaining workforce to sign up for “long hours at high intensity”, or leave. It has been estimated that hundreds of the remaining staff opted to go.
Seriously, a type of loyalty oath? Trump-style management didn’t save Trump’s numerous failed businesses and it won’t help Elon Musk.
This is what a slow implosion looks like. We’re gonna need a lot of popcorn for this one.
The departures include many engineers responsible for fixing bugs and preventing service outages, raising questions about the stability of the platform amid the loss of employees and prompting hurried debates among managers over who should be asked to return, current and former employees said.
Those former Twitter workers need to start working on a replacement platform ASAP. It would be a foolish waste of talent and a missed opportunity if they let this go by.
Government-related Twitter accounts like that of the French Embassy in Fiji are already announcing to followers where they can be found elsewhere online. There is a gap that needs to be filled quickly.
Musk isn’t the only person to blame for Twitterpocalypse. The stupidity of Twitter’s former chair Jack Dorsey and the greed of Twitter’s former board of directors including CEO Parag Agrawal must share responsibility for this disaster. If you give a flamethrower to a known arsonist then you can’t claim you’re innocent of starting a wildfire.
Any successor to Twitter should preferably be a not for profit corporation to make it resistant to takeovers by the clueless billionaires of this world. Being nonprofit doesn’t mean you make no money. Strictly speaking, IKEA is part of a nonprofit group. A nonprofit New Twitter (or whatever you wanna call it) could still have enough income to attract talent and make investments in itself.
The internet has become too important to trust to egotistical oligarchs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
