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Nov 18 (Reuters) - Elon Musk started a Twitter canvass precocious connected Friday asking followers to ballot connected whether to reinstate erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump's relationship connected the platform, with aboriginal results showing astir 60% voting yes.
"Vox Populi, Vox Dei," Musk tweeted, a Latin operation that astir means meaning "the dependable of the radical is the dependable of God." The canvass was unfastened for 24 hours.
Musk, Twitter's caller owner, said successful May helium would reverse Twitter's prohibition connected Trump, whose relationship was suspended aft past year's onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol.
Musk said earlier successful the time that a determination to bring backmost Trump's relationship was yet to beryllium made, and that Twitter had reinstated immoderate arguable accounts that had been banned oregon suspended, including satirical website Babylon Bee and comedian Kathy Griffin.
Musk's determination to inquire Twitter users for guidance connected who should beryllium connected the level is portion of a immense restructuring of the company, including monolithic layoffs.
In a memo connected Friday to remaining employees that was seen by Reuters, Musk asked those who constitute bundle codification to study to the 10th level of the Twitter's office successful San Francisco by aboriginal afternoon.
The billionaire said successful a follow-up email: "If possible, I would admit it if you could alert to SF to beryllium contiguous successful person," adding helium would beryllium astatine the bureau until midnight and would instrumentality Saturday morning.
He asked employees to email him a summary of what their bundle codification has "achieved" successful the past six months, "along with up to 10 screenshots of the astir salient lines of code."
"There volition beryllium short, method interviews that let maine to amended recognize the Twitter tech stack," Musk wrote successful 1 of the emails, and asked engineers to study astatine 2 p.m. connected Friday.
The emails came a time aft hundreds of Twitter employees were estimated to person decided to leave the beleaguered societal media company pursuing a Thursday deadline from Musk that staffers motion up for "long hours astatine precocious intensity."
The exodus adds to the change and chaos that person marked Musk's archetypal 3 weeks arsenic Twitter's owner. He has fired apical absorption including erstwhile CEO Parag Agarwal and elder officials successful complaint of information and privacy, drawing scrutiny from a regulator.
A White House authoritative besides weighed in, saying Twitter should archer Americans however the institution was protecting their data.
Tech website Platformer reported connected Friday that Robin Wheeler, the company's apical advertisement income executive, had been fired.
Wheeler, who told employees successful a memo past week that she was staying, tweeted connected Friday: "To the squad and my clients…you were ever my archetypal and lone priority", with a salute emoji that has been adopted arsenic a nonstop disconnected for departing employees.
Twitter told employees connected Thursday that it would adjacent its offices and chopped badge entree until Monday, according to 2 sources. Reuters could not instantly corroborate whether the office reopened.
On Friday afternoon, the institution had started cutting disconnected entree to institution systems for immoderate of the employees who had declined to judge Musk's offer, 3 radical told Reuters.
Another root said the institution was readying to unopen down 1 of Twitter's 3 main U.S. information centers, astatine the SMF1 installation adjacent Sacramento, to prevention costs.
In his archetypal email to Twitter employees this month, Musk warned that Twitter whitethorn not beryllium capable to "survive the upcoming economical downturn." He besides said, "We are besides changing Twitter argumentation specified that distant enactment is nary longer allowed, unless you person a circumstantial exception."
Amid the changes, Moody's withdrew its B1 recognition standing for Twitter, saying it had insufficient accusation to support the rating.
Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin and Sheila Dang; Additional reporting by Katie Paul; Writing by Sheila Dang and Katie Paul; Editing by Jonathan Oatis, David Gregorio, Emelia Sithole-Matarise, Daniel Wallis, Sayantani Ghosh and Gerry Doyle
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