Elon Musk’s Ultimatum Prompts Mass Resignation On Twitter; ‘RIP Twitter’, ‘Goodbye Twitter’ Started Trending

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The social networking business Twitter is reportedly losing hundreds of staff. This comes immediately after the new owner, Elon Musk, gave his team the choice to sign up for “long hours at high intensity” or quit. During the commotion, the hashtag #RipTwitter is now popular on the website.

This information is being released after concerned social media users posted about the platform’s future. Currently, the company is going through a lot of turmoil. The hashtag #LoveWhereYouWorked and the salute emoji were used by employees. Also referred to as “Tweeps,” to tweet about their resignations.

RIP Twitter

Elon Musk, the new owner of the social media firm, handed his staff an ultimatum. Telling them to either work “long hours at high intensity” or quit. Since then, a record mass resignation of hundreds of tweeps, as the employees are known inside, has occurred at Twitter.

RIP Twitter
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After fruitcake billionaire, Elon Musk fired top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal. And announced plans to lay off thousands of workers in the first week of his takeover of Twitter. There have been reports of Twitter employees being told by their managers to work 12 hours per day, seven days a week, to meet deadlines. Musk explained the cause as a “loss in revenue of the company.”

#RIPTwitter

In widespread resignations and full disorder at his new theatre. The thick-skinned CEO of Tesla and SpaceX would be keenly monitoring the hashtag “RIP Twitter.”

The phrase has been used in articles by both skeptics and former staff to highlight the impending disaster that the company is expected to experience if issues are not resolved.

Twitter shutdown

Twitter stated on Thursday that it will be temporarily closing its offices, denying staff access to the complex at least until Monday.

About an hour after Elon Musk’s deadline of 5 p.m. ET for Twitter staff to formally agree to his “extremely hard” vision of the firm, the shutdown occurred.

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Less than half of the approximately 4,000 surviving employees accepted the terms of the ultimatum. Thus they effectively quit under those conditions, according to Business Insider.

A former who is still in touch with former Twitter workers and a current employee. According to Reuters, both asserted that Musk was meeting with some of the top employees of the firm to convince them to stay. It is yet unknown how many employees have decided to stay. The statistics show how some employees are reluctant to stay with a company.

Workers have been instructed not to report to work due to the commotion as all office buildings will immediately begin to close temporarily. The BBC reports that access to all office buildings as well as badge access will be stopped until Monday, November 21 in a statement addressed to Twitter staff.