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Greatgrey wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 6:42 am

neonzx wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 5:55 am

Mike Sington@MikeSington

The new Twitter Blue subscription, which gives you a blue check verification, starts Nov 7, according to internal documents seen by The NY Times. You will not have to provide any proof of identification. In the past, Twitter required government issued ID to become verified.

So... You can get a blue-check if your payment method is successful. Sounds like legit verification. "subscription" not "verification"

Yes, and many of us are changing our avatar names & profiles to Elon Musk on the 7th.

Greatgrey wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 6:42 am Yes, and many of us are changing our avatar names & profiles to Elon Musk on the 7th.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman wrote: Elon Musk, a verifiable POS, has fired Twitter's entire human rights and disability access teams.

Mike Sington @MikeSington wrote: This is getting good now. Twitter has added a “fact check” to Elon Musk’s own tweet falsely claiming activist groups are responsible for a massive drop in Twitter revenue. Twitter points out it’s his own mismanagement that’s responsible.

Versha Sharma @versharma wrote: laying off the entire curation team 4 days before incredibly consequential midterm elections in the U.S., just a genius move

to be clear

Richie Assaly @rdassaly wrote: Looks like Elon Musk fired the entire curation team.

These were the folks who tackled misinfo, contextualized conversations via the 'Explore' page, and helped make Twitter an unmatched source for breaking news.

This will make Twitter noisier, more dangerous & less interesting

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:00 pm https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/statu ... 0768129025

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman wrote: Elon Musk, a verifiable POS, has fired Twitter's entire human rights and disability access teams.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:48 pm

Versha Sharma @versharma wrote: laying off the entire curation team 4 days before incredibly consequential midterm elections in the U.S., just a genius move

to be clear

Richie Assaly @rdassaly wrote: Looks like Elon Musk fired the entire curation team.

These were the folks who tackled misinfo, contextualized conversations via the 'Explore' page, and helped make Twitter an unmatched source for breaking news.

This will make Twitter noisier, more dangerous & less interesting

ADL @ADL wrote: Today, we are joining dozens of other groups to ask advertisers to pause Twitter spending because we are profoundly concerned about antisemitism and hate on the platform. Here's why we're asking advertisers to #StopHateForProfit and #StopToxicTwitter

Elon Musk @elonmusk wrote: Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day.

Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required.

chancery wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 8:25 pm Yeah, well, who saddled the company with $900 million dollars a year in new debt service?

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 7:56 pm I'm not sure what circular firing squad logic is going on here, but have at it I suppose.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588671155766194176

Elon Musk @elonmusk wrote: Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day.

Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required.

Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 9:14 pm Honestly, I am unhappy. I hope I can find all the great people I have followed again someday. But I follow a lot of Joos, and gays, and women. I think most of them will leave Twitter too also. Maybe I'll find them all somewhere.

Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter’s Staff
The layoffs hit across many divisions, including the engineering and machine learning units, the teams that manage content moderation, and the sales and advertising departments.

By Kate Conger, Ryan Mac and Mike Isaac
Nov. 4, 2022 Updated 7:35 p.m. ET

SAN FRANCISCO — When the ax came down at Twitter on Friday, it did not fall smoothly.

The first sign that some of the company’s 7,500 employees had been laid off came when their email accounts were shut off late Thursday. Yet they received no official word about termination and some of their Slack accounts still worked. In Twitter’s offices in Ireland and Britain, employees stayed up late waiting for the San Francisco headquarters to inform them of their job status. Some learned they were unemployed in the middle of their night.

The cuts were so haphazard that at one late-night meeting about the Twitter Blue subscription product, at least one worker was locked out of the company’s systems during the call, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting and internal messages viewed by The New York Times.

Many employees vented on Twitter. Chris Younie, a member of the partnerships team based in London, discovered he had been laid off when he checked his corporate laptop and email account after midnight and could not access the internal systems.