Twitter Faces Mass Departures of Staff

Hundreds of Twitter’s remaining employees have resigned ahead of Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” cultural reset of the company, The Verge reports.

“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.”

Fortune Magazine said up to 75% of Musk’s employees had decided to abandon the company.

The New York Times reports Musk frantically tried to retain top talent in hastily arranged Zooms.

Said a former Twitter employee to the Washington Post: “I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers. There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”