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Elon Musk has fired even more Twitter workers
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| There were even more layoffs at Twitter. Credit: Photo By Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto Via Getty Images |
The layoffs continue apace at Elon Musk's Twitter.
Twitter reportedly laid off thousands of contractors this weekend with no notice or warning. Casey Newtown, a tech reporter who writes the Substack, Platformer, reported on Sunday that Twitter laid off approximately 4,400 of its 5,500 contract employees. Newton also reported that the contractors weren't warned but rather just stripped of access to Slack and email.
The "cuts [were] expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running," Newton wrote on Twitter. Axios later confirmed that Twitter had laid off a large number of contractors including folks in content moderation.
Musk's tenure atop Twitter has been defined by dysfunction, rushed ideas, and layoffs. And while layoffs are never a fun or welcomed thing, they've been especially hard on employees at Twitter. The company laid off about half its full-time employees and then reportedly asked for some to come back because things weren't going well without them. The whole process was done through impersonal, automated emails. People at the company have described the morale in the office as awful.
So now even more folks who did important work at Twitter are out. Musk has reportedly said the company is in financial straits — he paid a whopping $44 billion for the company — and needs to make up ground with a skeleton crew. The chaos doesn't look like it'll slow down anytime soon.
They destroyed Twitter a long time ago. All the normal people left leaving the leftwing lunatics. To try to get the decent people back again is practically impossible.
ReplyDeleteI see where you've never worked in tech, either. SMH...
DeleteI remember OG Twitter and it wasn't Rightwing or SJW as you think it was. That political train arrived around 2008.
Deletehttps://youtu.be/yru14mMES1c I know why
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Deletedon't misunderstand that the Russian and Chinese Wana destroy social media in only direction but both from left wing and right wing side. Glad to know some Muricans finally sense the problems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory....
Delete2008, huh? What a coincidence. Right about the time that the Right got inflamed when we put a black man in the WH and all of the Tea Party, racist looneys exploded on social media…..and we can’t have anyone suppressing our every N-bomb and precious “Michelle Obama is a dude/gorilla” tweet. The current implosion of Twitter is what happens when you remove every guardrail. I will personally enjoy watching Elon’s toy get sucked into the right-wing fecal vortex.
DeleteI know right? Let the nazis back!!
Delete🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
the irony of the party who believe angels are real and that trickle down economics works calling people lunatics is wild AF
DeleteWrong wing. It’s ok common mistake.
Delete“decent people” 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼
DeleteI bet he doesn’t know what tech is… 🙂… the same as he has lost sense of reality or common sense…
Deleteit is already better! The worst trollish mobs have flounced out and you can have actual conversations Come have fun!
DeleteMusk is single handily crashing and burning twitter into the ground. Over 50% of the work force has been fired. Existing income streams have stopped and he is trying to charge for ridiculous things. Does he actually have a clue how twitter operated.
ReplyDeleteI doubt it.
Deletehe aims to sink it.
DeleteHe hinted when he walked in with the sink in his arms.
Quite obvious you don't lol. The irony of people telling the most succesful businessman ever how to operate a business is so funny.
DeleteHe's not interested in Twitter as it was. Check out the videos online for his plans and how it's not Twitter he wants but the coding, structures, etc that underpin it. He's said that that's a 5-6 year head start on his plans to create a non-Chinese wechat. He wants to create something that's 'everything but the kitchen sink'. Hence the kitchen sink pic. It's a scary plan.. check out his views about the end of nation states and national currencies, and his plans to use blockchain for voting. He says that representative democracy is too open to influence and he wants to move to 'true democracy' where each community votes all the time on each thing. To me that sounds like chaos, but he thinks it's a marvellous vision for a new future. Hmmmm... some powerful vested interests will push back hard on that vision.
DeletePoor people telling the guy that sent his selfbuilt electric car to Mars, just for fun, how to run his own company. Lmao
Deleteirony of some guy not knowing HOW Musk became "successful"(hint: most of the ideas he made money from was literally someone else's idea, not his own) 🤣🤣
Deleteit seems like that would be a better system than we currently have.
Delete*block chain voting. Probably hard to hack
*restore faith in the voting process
*stop our current politicians and their handlers (lobbyists ,globalists)from destroying our freedom
You should post a link!
That is how the world works lol. It is called innovation. He never claimed to be the inventor. Show me where he did? You need to keep away from the MSM. Obviously you are not the brightest kid on the block or you have lost the abilty of critical thinking. The irony of it is that Bill Gates stole absolutely everything and is now injecting you with modified RNA every few months and you treat him like a god haha. That is the power of media.
Deletehe never claimed to be the inventor but people like you think someone is smart because they're rich lol. With that same logic, the Kardashians are smart. I'd say trump be he's old money and isn't worth a billion dollars anymore. Also, here's the definition of innovation which you obviously didn't know:
Deletein·no·va·tion
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noun
the action or process of innovating.
"innovation is crucial to the continuing success of any organization"
plural noun: innovations
"technological innovations designed to save energy"
Exactly - innovation. Now look up invention. Totally different. Now look up what a business is and does lol. He never claimed he made the wheel. You did haha. In your MSM indoctrinated head. Your jealousy is eating you inside out. I don't know whether that is a scary or funny thing.
Deletehe doesn't have a clue how to run anything. If it weren't for his fascist connections in Washington, this woke pos would be broke.
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Deletedon't you just like the musk bootlickers that love the fn moron no matter what.
DeleteDon't have it any more. Sorry. Was apost in a group somewhere
DeletePs. Am a keen historian and putting the mob on charge usually ends in tears.....
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DeleteSLIGHT difference between introducing disruptive space and automotive technology and ‘reinventing democracy’. MF’er is in waaaaaay over his head this time.
DeleteLet that 'sink' in
DeleteDo not forget that! 🤣
Deleteyeah through corruption and political bribes. Think he’ll be fine.
DeleteI’ve had my fair share of good ideas. It’s another thing to wake up and make those dreams a reality. We all knew EV’s were possible. He made it real.
Deletewhy you spread such fables?
Delete"use blockchain for voting" - ah yes, have your vote be both public and eternally accessible forever. that will not have any possible downsides ever!
DeleteMeta fired 11,000. It didn't make headlines.
ReplyDeleteIt did though
Deleteyes it did
Deleteit most definitely did.
Deleteyes it did.
DeleteYeah it did.
Deletefor you
Deleteit did and can be not compared as well, meta fired 13 % of their workforce and Twitter over 50 %
Deleteit made headlines, but not in the way these news media clowns reports on it like every move musk makes. The people allegedly clowning are you are most likely vaccinated boosted and stupid.
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Deleteit bothers you we report Musk's savage handling of the situation?
Deleteactually, it did.
Deletewhat percentage of Meta employees is the 11000 compared to over 50% of Twitter work force already fired by this arrogant mofo?
Deleteit does. Hell, even people within Musk's inner circle told him not to buy Twitter, that he'll end up overpaying for it and never recoup his initial investment.
Deleteis a bigger company than Twitter. Point is they downsized.
DeleteIt was just on the nightly National news.
Delete"didn't make headlines"??? LOL where, on the moon maybe? Everywhere else it made headlines, including here in little old Perth, Western Australia (the most isolated city in the world).
DeleteDo you live in a cave?
Deleteoh no, he is the Boss and he can do anything with his Co. he wants to ☝️
Deletenot sure what you answering to, but not to what I said
DeleteTwitter, META, and Disney. All too big for their britches.
DeleteChanging to percentages. Liberals can be clever sometimes lol. Facebook fired more people and that is a fact. The truth is as even Dorsey said most of these had been redundant a long time ago but still on the payroll. He had grew it too big and too quick. Coincidentally Biden also fired 11000 from the Keystone pipeline. Where were you virtue signallers then?
Deleteit did actually
DeleteThere's so much to address there, Simon ...
DeleteAssuming all your claims are true, ... what exactly are you upset about?!
You seem to be upset that people were fired from Keysttone but think it's appropriate when folks were fired from Meta?!
Can't have it both ways.
Also, what do this firings have to do with Elon's screw ups at Twitter?
It looks like you're trying to find a reason to be upset, Simon.
I can’t post a picture here but if you actually Google that I can promise you there are headlines.
DeleteYeah just like Besos owning media it doesn’t bother the hate mob their targets are not based on rationality only joy of bullying
Deleteit made headlines too.
DeleteIt’s quite possible that previous leadership allowed the staffing of the company to grow without much justification. Maybe you just don’t need that many employees to operate Twitter.
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling that this will be in management textbooks in years to come about how not to run a company.
ReplyDeleteor how to fix a company. To make an omelet you gotta break a few eggs
DeleteGovernments get rid of contractors all the time. They are NOT employees. They operate as a business and this sort of thing is part and parcel of how it all works. They are hired for a specific task for a number of months. They can get renewed depending on the needs of the company.
DeleteI guess he never wants to sleep again. Good luck big boy.
ReplyDeleteHe’s a numbers guy. Cut expenses until it shows profit. No more workers = profit. He’ll use machines to replace humans.
ReplyDeleteHe’s just slowly closing Twitter. Will he reinvent it or call it a bankruptcy for tax purposes?
ReplyDeleteHow did Twitter get to the point where it had so many people working for it and was losing money? Perhaps Elon is just taking action that should have been taken years ago. Cut costs or increase revenue or close it down.
ReplyDeletenah, he’s not that smart.
Deletelet’s hope that closing it down will work…🙂
DeleteCut costs or increase revenue or close it down in 280 characters or less.
DeleteI'm sure McKinsey or Booze Allen will be able to help him.
Delete"everyone, go home"
DeleteDitch the Twit!!
ReplyDeleteI did… 🙂… can’t support egomania
DeleteNot personal..just a good business decision.
ReplyDeleteor a bad one, time will tell
Delete“The company laid off about half its full-time employees and then reportedly asked for some to come back because things weren't going well without them.”
DeleteHow was that a good decision?
soon it will only be twit, not twitter :-))
ReplyDeletewonder if EM realised the implication of 'twit' to many English speakers?
Deletealways something lost in translation :-))
DeleteLike me unliking mashable for being boring. 😂 Looking for better news/info source somewhere else. Yes, I’m announcing my departure. #W
ReplyDeleteOh and I noticed a lot of anti-Elon posts here is not on Twitter. Mashable is on Twitter?? Get off Twitter if your posts are just about negative info and attracting people who hates the guy.
DeleteYou gave a lot to say for someone nobody cares about. See your way out.
Deletelike I care about yours yet you still replied. 🤪
Deleteand yet you cared enough to let us know how little you care 🤔
DeleteI do care a lot. It’s my nature. 🤷♂️😂
DeleteThis is actually good for Twitter 🙂💪
ReplyDeleteHe's fun to watch!
ReplyDeleteAll hail modern Edison💡
who also stole people's ideas and used them as his own 🙂
DeleteThis is becoming the world's longest slowest drawn out car crash.
ReplyDeleteI’m just curious what his plan is. The guy is mega successful. What is the end game? I’m as edge of my seat with Elon as I am with Handmaids Tale and Yellowstone. 🤣
ReplyDelete#mars
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that’s not realistic. He didn’t go all freezy and become Walt Disney and have a prep plan for reanimating
Delete? Journey is just 6 months to mars. Which freeze?
DeleteHe’s never liked freedom of speech, only privileged indulgence.
ReplyDeleteagreed.
DeleteThis is what happens when Justin Hammer thinks he's Tony Stark.
DeleteNo big deal. The entitled would had cried about having to buy or bring their own lunches anyway’s.
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure why these people didn’t plan ahead.
ReplyDeleteYou’d surely have to think to yourself “my job involves working for a company that looses $4,000,000 a day, there’s a new owner coming in…I wonder if he might make a few cuts …”
In an era where “sustainability” is the most overused word in the dictionary, so many people don’t know what it means. Loosing $4m a day is the opposite of sustainable.
Will this page give Musk/Twitter a break???
ReplyDeleteYou made this post yesterday. Media that divides
ReplyDeleteOh, for goodness sakes!
ReplyDeleteElon Masks gift to humankind, demolition of Twitter.🤣
ReplyDeleteI’m sure this won’t blow up in face. Again. And embarrassingly.
ReplyDeleteGood for him. He is a rational and effective person who is good at improving companies and with noble goals and it is shameful how the crowd who have hate as their whole personality are not only sabotaging the company but relentlessly slandering him to try and feel big
ReplyDeleteWould never use twitter anyway.
ReplyDeleteBy Thanksgiving there will only be one employee left.
ReplyDeleteSee ya later lazies.
ReplyDeleteJust imagine the losses he will have to claim in his taxes.😄 I LOL at all you people that want him to fail. He's probably not going to be paying 11 billion dollars in taxes this year.
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Deletenop?
Delete🙂 nop suppose to go to a different post...
DeleteFacebook sacked more but you don’t mention them 😂
ReplyDeleteMusk is liberal and allows all the hateful left wing trolls to rant as freely as they fear others will be allows to speak against them. The only people banned were breaking terms of service for impersonating people that predated Musk but they are too dishonest to report that detail
ReplyDeleteThey aught to all get up and walk out on him.. he doesn’t listen to experienced workers anyway. Are we sure that he isn’t a Trump in disguise?
ReplyDeleteThat sucks. How are they supposed to make their Tesla payments without a job?
ReplyDeleteWhy is this news? Facebook just dumped 11k workers.
ReplyDeleteGuess Elon thinks he can run it all by himself.
ReplyDeleteIs the stooge gong to re-hire them when he realises nothing is getting done? Musk has gone completely mental.
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ReplyDeleteRIP Twitter
ReplyDeleteThank god.
ReplyDeleteI hear Elon is hiring people solely for the satisfaction of sacking them arbitrarily, later.
ReplyDeleteTwitter is garbage anyway. WHO CARES!
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ReplyDeleteMore than Zuck and Facebook?
ReplyDeleteElon increasing unemployment.
ReplyDeleteTwitter is a nice idea, but the social platform has turned to crap.
ReplyDeleteHe is a twat isnt he
ReplyDeleteThey were lames
ReplyDeleteThen meta workers will apply for Twitter 😃
ReplyDeleteAll tech and social media companies are losing staff...check google and FB
ReplyDeleteDon't... Care..
ReplyDeleteMeta run by a hard left wing fanatic fires over 10,000 employees.
ReplyDeleteNot a word.
Musk fires a handful of lefties and it’s the end of the world 🤣
https://www.nytimes.com/.../meta-layoffs-facebook.html
Good work Elon
ReplyDeleteKeep it goin
No one cares
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As he put it. … Who needs 10 supervisors for every 1 person coding?
ReplyDeleteIt's starting to look like the keystone pipeline.
ReplyDeleteI wish he fires them all.
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ReplyDeleteAnd again and again., we don't care 😂
ReplyDeleteFascinating the way some media are counting the comings and goings of Twitter staff - are we going to be getting the same information in regards to all businesses from now on or is it just this one? 🤔
ReplyDeleteIt will save money. Even Facebook fired staff, and how Twitter us so pathetic they weren't doing anything worthwhile.
ReplyDeleteI of that stupid Twitter employee suspended my account.
ReplyDeleteI hope that he/she is fired.
Good, the woke freaks who work there have GOT TO GO! They have been crushing our free speech for years and getting off on it. They had no problem with banning anyone who disagree with their fascist woke-ism. To them, if you do not do, think, and say as they tell you, your a racist, shocker!!! Those who work there are sickening people, period!
ReplyDeleteDocumentary coming in 2024 exclusive to Crackle… “How to lose $44 billion in 10 days”
ReplyDeleteWho cares....
ReplyDeleteWell Twitter was ok while it lasted.......
ReplyDeleteno more (woke) propaganda.
ReplyDeleteIs he shorting Twitter stock just to drive it down and rake house? Seems like it from how he's running things.
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ReplyDeleteGo Elon.
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ReplyDeleteTweets and prayers.
ReplyDeletePoor Elon ... 😂
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