“This Is The End, My Beautiful Friend, The End”

#Breaking

Mass resignations at #Twitter underway after #ElonMusk asks remaining employees to commit to "Hardcore Twitter." All employees locked out of the building unit Monday. Visa holders likely the only remaining employees.

Story ➡️ https://t.co/wNQceCx7dU

— Colt Sebastian Taylor (@ColtSTaylor) November 18, 2022

The fresh purge of Twitter’s ranks comes after Musk recently fired dozens of employees who criticized or mocked him in tweets and internal messages. Musk then set a deadline of 5PM ET on Thursday for all employees to respond “yes” on in Google form if they want to stay for what he is calling “Twitter 2.0;” otherwise, today would be their final day of work and they would receive a severance package. After the deadline hit, hundreds of employees quickly started posting farewell messages and salute emojis in Twitter’s Slack, announcing that they had said no to Musk’s ultimatum. 

Twitter had roughly 2,900 remaining employees before the deadline Thursday, thanks to Musk unceremoniously laying off about half of the 7,500-person workforce when he took over and the resignations that followed. Remaining and departing Twitter employees told The Verge that, given the scale of the resignations this week, they expect the platform to start breaking soon. One said that they’ve watched “legendary engineers” and others they look up to leave one by one.

Techbros, man.

Everything ok in there, Twitter? pic.twitter.com/IgLRCVakjZ

— RSchooley@socel.net (@Rschooley) November 18, 2022

Getting ready for absence of Twitter by standing on street corner shouting mordant observations to passing cars

— Popehat (@Popehat) November 18, 2022

I’m gonna have to go back to doing my own writing.

https://t.co/SZvrLGs4BC pic.twitter.com/tGSAtDEcPt

— Popehat (@Popehat) November 18, 2022

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— Laura Apollo (@lauraapollo) November 18, 2022

Silicon Valley types are always saying that you need to take the shit private to do the stuff that needs to be done without worrying about market reactions. And I finally get it. You need your company to be private to do this stuff.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 18, 2022

We're hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. Also, they're still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 17, 2022

reached the joke-about-flushing-$44B-and-maybe-this-rando-volunteer-off-the-street-could-help stage of disaster pic.twitter.com/626KDU0MyK

— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 18, 2022