As anticipated, Blue Check Twitter is big mad today….
(Politico) – Elon Musk began firing hundreds of Twitter employees on Friday, four days before the midterm elections, including members of the teams that work on U.S. elections and content moderation on the high-profile social-media platform.
Tweets flooded the platform on Friday, many using the hashtags #LoveWhereYouWork and #OneTeam, as employees let others know that they had been let go. Many of those posting had previously worked in roles including public policy, trust and safety, communications, engineering, marketing and human resources.
Half of Twitter’s public policy team was cut, including members of a team handling verification of politicians’ accounts, according to a person close to the company who requested anonymity. That work will now be folded into a team rolling out a subscription service that is expected to launch on Nov. 7.
[…] Friday’s layoffs, however, appear to be adding fuel to the anxieties of both users and advertisers that Twitter is gutting its ability to keep tabs on who and what shows up on its platform. And the across-the-board cuts come just as the company’s moderation systems are expected to be tested during the midterms.
In a press call, a coalition of civil rights and activists groups called #StopToxicTwitter called for a global pause on advertising in the light of the mass layoffs on Friday. […] “With today’s mass layoffs, it’s clear that Musk’s actions betray his words,” Jessica González, co-CEO of the media advocacy group Free Press, said on the call. (read more)
If Twitter had been run as a normal business, these force reductions happen all the time. It depends upon profits. Instead, the last direction was to throw more money at the problem in the form of more employees and a money losing company.
Welcome to the real world people! Your education is only partly complete. If you need/want the company/corporation to take care of you for little or no output, keep voting liberal. If you truly work for your bread, and enjoy the fruits of your labor, welcome to America, capitalism and FREEDOM. Grab your Freedom for the last time or lose it. IOW, grow up!
If I was Musk I would put a hold on ALL advertising for Twitter…. Do a review on all the advertisers and let back the ones you want… Make it YOUR platform not theirs…Start fresh…
Watch them all melt… then charge the trouble makers double to come back….
In the meantime…Buy a Ford…or one of his cars…
To all the Tweeps fired yesterday; don’t worry you can just learn how to mine coal or use a broom.
According to the puppet ventriloquist occupying the white house, careers in “coding” is recommended for displaced workers from the useful and productive sectors, such as mining, oil, gas, welding and construction fields?
It is a good question of what useful purpose the tens of millions of functionally illiterate workers with useless college degrees in overstaffed government, university, public schools, corporate and NGOs could be found for them?
Landfill.
Maybe they could learn, but I doubt it.
They already use a broom to fly to work.
LOL, I was going to say, they could always learn how to code.
Yeah I guess they already know how to code
Friday’s layoffs, however, appear to be adding fuel to the anxieties of both users and advertisers
Really? this is one user that’s not anxious about it. I’m just wondering if I can get the account I had in my real name back.
It’s amazing how soon we all forget…Its time for Musk and Americans responding to this crap to repeat one
single line….
What happened to Twitter being a privately-owned company that can do what it wants to do?
Notice how all these Liberal Loons are up in arms about people being lket go at TWATTER, but could give two shits about all of those small businesses who had to close because of the Covid scam.
I hope never pay big bucks for a business that is losing $4 million/day.
$ 4 million / day: is that in competition with the national debt clock –
or
a small part of the national debts being accumulated?
[ considering that the hidden 4th branch, untold, likes, miss funds various means of inflicting mass formation psychosis, i.e. sharing wooden-nickels ]
Here is USA Debt Clock: ( you can watch $ 1 million more debt occur, in seconds )
https://usadebtclock.com/
While spending continues beyond our means,
what is a taxpayer to do? (hint, its more than be a t w i t )
” prove all things,
hold fast to that which is good.”
-Saul whom became Paul, wrote to the Thessalonians 5:21
i.e. as Grandpa said,
‘don’t take any wooden nickels’
This is really really fun to watch!
I expect to see a lot of Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink advertisements on Twitter.
Elon paying himself from one company to another. Or, is it Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink getting unlimited free advertising at Twitter?
Something has to be up Twitter owners’ sleeves. No one spends $44B and many other billions from the other owners to lose $4M/day.
Good thing there are plenty of jobs out there right? Welcome to the Thunder Dome knuckle draggers….better learn how to use a shovel.
I sure am glad I am not in Elon Musk’s shoes.
But, if he could destroy Twitter, he would be doing the World a favor . . .
It would have been a nice touch to include a meme of President Trump with each “You’re fired” notice.
Oh, my.
Remember when the blue checkmark was merely a tool to identify authentic celebrity/public figure/corporate accounts with many imposters? Then they decided to make it a stamp of ideological purity.