Musk publishes poll asking whether he should reinstate Trump - SFGATE

Nov. 18, 2022Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 5:20 p.m.

Here's a liveblog of the latest developments.

Musk asks Twitter users whether helium should fto Trump backmost connected the platform

Nov. 18, 5:15 p.m.

Just earlier 5 p.m. Friday, Musk decided to canvass Twitter users connected an contented of nationalist security. "Reinstate erstwhile President Trump," helium wrote, without a question people but with an enactment each for yes oregon no.

As of 5:15 p.m., the poll had amassed much than 1 cardinal votes, with 61.6% of respondents saying Donald Trump should beryllium fto backmost connected Twitter and 38.4% saying helium should not be. Trump's relationship was permanently suspended successful the aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021, "due to the hazard of further incitement of violence," Twitter wrote successful a blog at the time.

Musk did not bespeak erstwhile helium planned to marque the decision, lone tweeting six minutes aft helium shared the archetypal poll: "Vox Populi, Vox Dei." The operation translates from Latin to mean, "The dependable of the radical is the dependable of God."

Mass resignations reportedly permission Twitter with conscionable 2,500 employees

Nov. 18, 1:30 p.m.

Just 2 weeks aft Elon Musk eliminated astir fractional of Twitter's workforce (about 3,700 jobs) the purge continued Thursday, aft 1,200 full-time employees efficaciously resigned by choosing to not to opt-in to Elon Musk’s Google Form agreeing they'd enactment successful his "extremely hardcore" mentation of Twitter, according to reports successful some Fortune and the New York Times.

The latest exodus would permission Twitter with astir 2,500 employees, down from 7,500 astatine the extremity of October.

According to Business Insider, Thursday's resignations included Twitter's payroll department, U.S. taxation squad and fiscal reporting team.

Musk calls mysterious gathering for bundle engineers

Nov. 18, noon

Musk reportedly changeable an email Friday greeting calling connected “anyone who really writes software” to conscionable him astatine Twitter contiguous astatine 2 p.m., arsenic the unit continues to dwindle amid the chaotic takeover by the Tesla head, Forbes reported. 

Industry insider Zoe Schiffer shared the aforesaid information connected Twitter and added that Musk asked those funny successful attending the gathering to email "a slug constituent summary of what your codification commits person achieved successful the past 6 months."

"Again, nary discourse arsenic to what this is about," Schiffer wrote. "We cognize Twitter's engineering teams person been gutted by layoffs and resignations. What's next?"

This comes aft Schiffer reported Thursday nighttime that Musk notified employees astatine Twitter's offices that they volition beryllium locked retired of offices with their badge entree suspended until Nov. 21. While this has happened erstwhile earlier — aft the archetypal circular of layoffs earlier this period — this closure appears to person drawn peculiar interest from Twitter users, with galore tweeting astir the site's imaginable demise successful the days to come, SFGATE's tech exertion Joshua Bote wrote Thursday.