In case you hadn’t noticed, things really haven’t been off to a good start for the new Musk Twitter. To be entirely frank, that entire platform is nothing but a dumpster fire full of excrement, floating down the River Styx, and it hasn’t even been a month since the Tesla mogul took over the social media company.
And that’s just what we can see on the surface.
According to damning new info from an inside source who has spoken with CNN’s Oliver Darcy, the infamous Twitter social media company is in “dire” conditions these days, and the “mass exodus” the platform is experiencing will soon leave Elon struggling “just to keep the lights on.”
Earlier this week, multiple reports confirmed that the new Twitter CEO Elon Musk gave his employees a deadline of Thursday — their options were to either commit to working the “hardcore” hours he was soon to impose on them in the impending weeks and months following his takeover, or they could basically pack up their shit and get the hell out.
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Much to what I’m sure was Elon’s surprise, hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter employees chose the latter — leaving the company experiencing what one inside source called a “mass exodus.”
In both CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter as well as during a network segment this week, Oliver Darcy reported:
Scores of remaining employees at the social media company on Thursday appeared to reject owner Elon Musk’s ultimatum to work ‘extremely hardcore,’ throwing the communications platform into utter disarray and raising serious questions about how much longer it will survive.
A former Twitter executive, who recently exited the company, described the situation to me as a ‘mass exodus.’ Asked about the situation, the former executive told me, ‘Elon is finding out that he can’t bully top senior talent. They have lots of options and won’t put up with his antics.’
‘They will struggle just to keep the lights on,’ the former executive added.”
The rumors about Twitter’s impending demise under Musk’s reign of terror were only further fueled by a disturbing report from Platformer that claimed employees with the social media company were locked out of Twitter headquarters and had their badge access unceremoniously stripped as a paranoid Elon Musk panics about potential internal “sabotage.”
The ordeal has ultimately earned a trending hashtag of “RIPTwitter” as thousands upon thousands of users share their thoughts and the matter and begin to say their goodbyes to their followers as the possibility of a Twitter apocalypse looms.
“In fact, Twitter management was in panic mode hours before the deadline passed, people familiar with the matter told me, explaining that senior leaders were ‘’scrambling’ to convince talent to stay at the company,” CNN’s Darcy reported.
See the network segment from Mediaite here.
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