The mass exodus of Twitter users continues, on both the internal and consumer sides. Elon Musk, the new owner, has decided to reactivate accounts of Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson (bestselling author) and Jordan Peterson (psychologist). Babylon Bee.
Only the Babylon Bee account has acknowledged Musk’s decision, Tweeting, “We’re back. Let that sink in.”
The Tesla billionaire Tweet this latest update, and he did not disclose a final decision about former (and now campaigning once more) President Donald Trump’s account.
He also clarified the new policies around the app’s speech guidelines.
“New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,”He wrote. “Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.”
“You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from the rest of the Internet”Musk was the second.
Musk’s latest demand that the platform’s workforce commit to a hardcore output of “woking long hours at high intensity”It backfired when a record number (higher than Musk expected) of employees quit their jobs at the company and chose the other option offered. “Chief Twit”You can resign with severance compensation.
The Associated Press Chalked upThe number to “hundreds,”Many of these people left with the “salute” emoji on Slack.
“The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried,” Musk TweetThursday night
“Am hearing the number of Twitter resignations today is likely over 1,000, though unclear as not all are posting their decision,”Alex Heath is the editor of The Verge Updated late Thursday. A Similar story on the site noted the company had just 2,900 workers remaining before Musk’s deadline.
“Some teams, such as the engineering team that manages Twitter’s core system libraries, are completely gone now.”
“Hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter employees have technically resigned but still have access to Twitter’s internal systems, with some speculating it is because the employees tasked with managing that access also resigned,” he added, detailing several members of Twitter’s “Command Center”That was responsible for the platform’s day-to-day operations. “Also entire key infra teams gone. Not good!”
Thursday night also devolved into a discussion of the social media outlet’s downfall as the hashtag #RIPTwitter trended.