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Musk took over Twitter: layoffs and 12-hour shifts seven days a week

Fear of being fired

The Twitter staff also had to deliver all technical documentation to Musk’s teams immediately.

They also told CNBC that they have not yet received any guidance or plans from Musk and feel they are being kept in the dark about budget, strategy and potential job cuts.

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They also say they have no information from their new director that all the extra work they are currently doing will earn them extra money, free time, or job security.

“This is the end,” he described, according to the server Insider feel in the company under the guidance of Musk one of the employees. “Our work is in danger.”

Dates of the gallows

Musk has also reportedly set very strict deadlines for some activities and major changes to how the social network works. These include an expected change in the website design and the way Twitter will authenticate users using the blue circle with a check mark.

Additionally, several Twitter employees told CNBC over the weekend that Tesla workers who have been reassigned and now work on Twitter are involved in overhauling the social network’s code, even as their abilities to work on Autopilot and other software and Tesla hardware do not directly overlap with the languages ​​and systems used to create and maintain a social network.

For example, most of the engineers at car manufacturers, even at the technologically advanced Tesla, have no experience in designing and managing search engines and platforms that are widely accessible to the public.

Musk has also retired other employees from his other companies, such as the Boring Company, which makes underground tunnels, and Neuralink, which deals with digital connections to the human brain. CNBC also reports that a number of Musk’s friends, consultants and financiers are also involved in the redesign of the social network.


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The Twitter upheaval comes when the richest man in the world finally outlined his plans to charge verified Twitter users for keeping his blue wheel. According to employees, Musk wants to complete this job in the first week of November.

server Insider he then cited an internal management note sent to the Twitter team: “We are expected to work literally 24/7 to get changes as quickly as possible.”

Blue wheel for a fee

It was initially reported that the monthly fee for the so-called verified account would be up to $ 20 per month, however the billionaire lowered it to “just” $ 8.

Moss according to the server UNILAD said this new payment system will provide Twitter with a revenue stream that will reward content creators. “The current system of gentlemen and peasants on Twitter for who has or does not have a blue tick is nonsense,” she also said.

However, its bold plan to charge users for that blue wheel could backfire as people who already have the verification badge say they won’t pay for it.

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