management now appears to have grown concerned about the number of people planning to depart and are “scrambling” to convince talent to stay. Twitter, which has reportedly eliminated most of its public relations team, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

As employees (per this article) worry about 'poisoning from within'

Nothing left but engineering (so, AI for "moderation"? No humans involved in PR, legal, or customer relations?)
No mention - yet that I've seen - about user/customer experience. Or employees. Or anything but "hard-core" #MusKKK

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Could we get Elon to buy Facebook next? Then maybe two social giants could fall.

There are two thoughts on my mind about this.
First, is he shutting the offices to stop anyone from bringing the system down
Second, is he going to have someone go through everyone's machines and look for anything that he can then use against them.
It should concern anyone connected to businesses like this that a new Owner can come in and make wholesale changes to the business without any regard to the way that the company has been built and operated. It doesn't feel like he has done his homework, just has his thoughts on how it will operate and so how he will get his money back as quick as possible.

Well first he mostly bought the company with investor’s money (mostly Saudi) not his and right now the company basically has no assets left. The assets were the codebase, employees, users and advertisers - all pretty much gone. I wouldn’t buy the company for a dime now.

Yeah it took him just over two weeks but he has totally destroyed it. I expect it will go 404 this weekend.

Should we be thanking him then?

Yeah personally I think that was a good move, but then it wasn't my $44B that he wasted

A few years ago slave-driving motivation consultants were telling their clients and victims about being "passionate" about their work. (The same idea as above.) A friend of mine was at a company meeting where the management took this line. And she piped up, "If it's passion, it's not something I'm gonna do for money." Everyone laughed. Fortunately the meme or slogan died out before she had to look for a new job.

I don't care if it dies; I get all my tweets from nitter.net

But....but....@Starry Gordon...but...

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I have one of those noises programs on my computer that includes a variety of actual tweets. You know, the kind that are produced by little guys with feathers.