“If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below,” Musk told employees in an email that was sent to them on Wednesday morning.
Musk has laid off more than half of the company’s workforce since completing his acquisition of Twitter three weeks ago.
Nick Morgan, a former software engineer at Twitter, said he was let go by the company. He assumes it was because of messages he wrote on Slack.Musk has clashed publicly with Twitter engineers who were critical of him. Those engineers were promptly fired.Musk has fired as many as 20 software engineers and developers at Twitter after they were discovered to have criticized management.
The layoffs coincided with a chaotic rollout of the Blue Verified feature in which Twitter users were invited to pay $7.99 per month for a blue check icon next to their handles. One impersonated the official account of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, fraudulently claiming that the company was offering free insulin — causing the pharma giant’s stock to plummet and leading its executives to freeze their advertising on Twitter.According to Platformer, some engineers who were recently fired by the company had expressed sympathy for three of their former colleagues who were dismissed after publicly criticizing Musk — Eric Frohnhoefer, Sasha Solomon and Ben Leib.
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