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September 2013, Ireland

philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_

Elon Musk said in court that he expects to reduce his time at Twitter and eventually find a new leader to run the social media company Tesla investors have been increasingly concerned about the time that Musk is devoting to turning around Twitter

reuters.comElon Musk says he will find a new leader for TwitterElon Musk said on Wednesday he expected to reduce his time at Twitter and eventually find a new leader to run the social media company, adding that he hoped to complete an organizational restructuring this week.

Mike Laidlaw notes that "flying in, making a lot of noise, shitting on everything, and then flying off again is called 'seagull management.'" Although maybe if he flys off things will calm down? Gonna be tough running this site with a Skeleton crew.

Alex Heath @alexeheath

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.

theverge.comElon Musk’s new email pushes Twitter managers to do his dirty workApproving remote work puts managers on the chopping block.

One tidbit from another thread is that many of the people who've elected to stay are on visas that make it hard to stay in the country if they leave their current employment.

Kylie Robison @kyliebytes

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.

Later in the thread it's noted that these are estimates, no one has the exact figure yet. But at this point twitter will have lost something like 90% of their workforce in three weeks.

Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer

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.

Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer

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.

Sarah Jeong points out that Elon looking for sabotage is very Tim Robinson Hot Dog Guy.

lauren @NotABigJerk

Phew, ok. Plenty of time left to tweet something that makes someone so mad that they kill me

Travis Akers @travisakers

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

Most estimates are expecting things to get dicey during the world cup which is often a very high traffic day for Twitter.

nilay patel @reckless

Updates from @alexeheath on the Twitter staff that's all quit: multiple teams that run core services are all gone theverge.com/2022/11/17/234…

It's gonna be really hard to keep Twitter running, Yglesias quips: "In a profound sense, the real Twitter was the friends we made along the way." Nate Silver went and made a Substack just in case. Kai Ryssdal agrees that Twitter has been a great place to be over the years.

Jessica Hagy @jessicahagy

The Old God prepares for final battle

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