Elon Musk demands Twitter staff commit to 'long hours' or leave: Read the email - CNBC

New Twitter CEO and sole manager Elon Musk sent a companywide email to remaining employees of the societal media concern connected Wednesday, demanding they perpetrate to moving "long hours astatine precocious intensity" oregon person "three months of severance," if they did not consent to these conditions, oregon enactment his imaginativeness for "Twitter 2.0."

The companywide ultimatum, sent astir midnight successful San Francisco clip and shared with CNBC, comes aft Musk has already fired cardinal Twitter executives, laid disconnected fractional of Twitter's full-time employees, and slashed the fig of contractors moving with the institution without notice. This week, helium besides fired seasoned engineers astatine Twitter aft they criticized him successful public, oregon successful the company's interior Slack channels.

Since Musk took implicit connected Oct. 28, helium has announced sweeping changes planned for Twitter. One alteration that helium insisted the institution rotation retired quickly, called Twitter Blue verification, had to beryllium rescinded, however.

The $7.99/month Blue subscription service allowed radical to wage for a bluish cheque people that looked similar the people antecedently reserved to amusement an relationship was verified oregon official.

A deluge of impersonators bought the paid subscriber checkmarks to airs arsenic morganatic celebrities, companies and politicians, and successful immoderate cases, they posted mendacious accusation astir companies.

For example, accounts impersonated the multinational cause institution Eli Lilly. One impersonator caused a superior problem when they tweeted, "we are excited to denote insulin is escaped now."  The tweet remained connected the societal media level for hours earlier it was taken down. The existent Eli Lilly account later tweeted: "We apologize to those who person been served a misleading connection from a fake Lilly account."

Eli Lilly's banal price dropped sharply after the mendacious connection was posted, and the institution has decided to suspend advertizing connected Twitter indefinitely.

Musk present plans a revised Twitter Blue Verified merchandise connected Nov. 29th.

Here's the afloat email that Elon Musk sent to Twitter employees connected Wednesday (transcribed by CNBC):

From: Elon Musk

To: Team [at Twitter]

Subj. A Fork successful the Road

Date: Nov. 16, 2022 [time stamp removed]

Going forward, to physique a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and win successful an progressively competitory world, we volition request to beryllium highly hardcore. This volition mean moving agelong hours astatine precocious intensity. Only exceptional show volition represent a passing grade.

Twitter volition besides beryllium overmuch much engineering-driven. Design and merchandise absorption volition inactive beryllium precise important and study to me, but those penning large codification volition represent the bulk of our squad and person the top sway.

At its heart, Twitter is simply a bundle and servers company, truthful l deliberation this makes sense.

If you are definite that you privation to beryllium portion of the caller Twitter, delight click yes connected the nexus below:

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Anyone who has not done truthful by 5pm ET time (Thursday) volition person 3 months of severance.

Whatever determination you make, convey you for your efforts to marque Twitter successful.

Elon