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- Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴
- NEW: Employees who have criticized Elon Musk in Twitter’s Slack channels were fired overnight over email. “We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated immediately,” they’re being told over email. “Your recent behavior has violated company policy.”
- According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night. An employee says it will be up to engineers to “self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws.”
- Multiple ex-Twitter sources telling me that Robin Wheeler, the sales leader who Musk begged to stay at the company days ago when she tried to resign, has now been firedReaders added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextOn Nov 18th Robin Wheeler verified her departure via a Tweet from her personal account: twitter.com/robinw/status/… Multiple news outlets have reported on this as a firing, sourcing from multiple “insiders” who disclosed those details to the media. businessinsider.com/elon-musk-fire…
- At a Twitter all-hands right now, execs told employees that they are not open to renegotiating the purchase price with Elon Musk. I’m told that champagne was popped in the New York office.Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextCasey Newton later corrected himself saying that sources indicated that "champagne WAS NOT popped." twitter.com/CaseyNewton/st…
- Tweeps are just hanging out in Slack saying nice things to each other until their access is cut off. I’ve never seen anything like it. Some really incredible people leaving Twitter tonight. We are all worse off without them there
- I'm told Twitter employees were just walked out of its Singapore office — its Asia-Pacific headquarters — over nonpayment of rent. Landlords walked employees out of the building
- Replying to @CaseyNewtonIt’s important to note that Twitter has long cultivated a culture of internal dissent: “Communicate fearlessly to build trust.” No internal codes of conduct have changed since Elon took over. So this is all out of the blue.
- Getting word that a large number of number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others
- Replying to @CaseyNewtonHere’s one of the affected employees, who had pushed back on Musk’s tweets blaming performance issues on Twitter’s architecture. “One of the absolute best engineers we had,” one employee tells me. "A legend in her area of expertise.”
- Replying to @CaseyNewton“All of this is extremely dangerous for our users,” the message says. “Given that the FTC can (and will!) fine Twitter BILLIONS of dollars pursuant to the FTC Consent Order, extremely detrimental to Twitter’s longevity as a platform. Our users deserve so much better than this.”
