Why RIPTwitter is trending
, which would have involved long hours, or they could leave with three months of severance pay.
According to internal messages seen by The Verge, hundreds chose to leave, and the scale of resignations suggests that the platform would start breaking soon.Christian Marquardt/Getty Images The wave of resignations has led to Musk closing the Twitter offices until Monday, November 21. He informed his staff in an email and asked them to"please continue to comply with company policy by refraining from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere." Implying that everything should be back to normal after the weekend with his closing line."We look forward to working with you on Twitter's exciting future," he wrote.
Overnight, social media users have been anticipating the death of Twitter by using the hashtag #RIPTwitter, while the names of rival social media sites, Myspace, Tumblr and Mastodon, were also trending.
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