oopsIn a sign that laying off half the company may not have been the best idea, "dozens" of Twitter employees given notice on Friday were reportedly asked to return over the weekend.
While the move will only bring back a tiny portion of the nearly 3,700 people believed to have been axed following Elon Musk's acquisition of the app and website, it does appear to be a tacit acknowledgement that the world's richest man's decision to gut the biz may have been hasty.
Bloomberg spoke to people familiar with the matter, who said some of those being asked back were apparently laid off by mistake, while others who were dumped were actually necessary to Musk's $8-a-month fee-speech future for Twitter.
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Re: Elon Musk
Some sacked Twitter staff asked to come back
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Home Office did that a while back, someone I know who worked for boarder control was 'retired' then asked to come back. Made a bit of a killing IIRC.
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Ditto the MoD in the early 90's, couldn't wait to cash in on the "peace dividend" offered by the end of the Cold War, only to find out a very short while later that the Cold War was actually the real peace dividend.......Hummer_I_mean_Hammer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 08, 2022 12:54 pm Home Office did that a while back, someone I know who worked for boarder control was 'retired' then asked to come back. Made a bit of a killing IIRC.
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Musk tells Twitter staff that remote working will end and workers would be expected in the office for at least 40 hours a week.
I expect a good number will walk away and find jobs where remote working is permitted.
I expect a good number will walk away and find jobs where remote working is permitted.
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Musk doesn't like doing remote employee bollocking and humiliation.York Ham(mer) wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 5:35 pm Musk tells Twitter staff that remote working will end and workers would be expected in the office for at least 40 hours a week.
I expect a good number will walk away and find jobs where remote working is permitted.
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Someone created a fake Lebron James account, and paid for the blue verification mark, and tweeted out some fake stuff & basketball fans fell for it.
https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/09/twitters ... ade-tweet/
https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/09/twitters ... ade-tweet/
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They're allowing anyone to pay for the official blue check mark things, so someone has made that account, paid the money to make it look like it's verified and genuine, and then posted that. That isn't the real Tesla account, but enough people will have thought it was for it to look bad on the company as a whole most likely.
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The pay to verify thing is so flawed IMO.
You go from a system where active verification to get the blue tick thing was done, with largely worked.
Spam/bot accounts weren't verified, so educating this to people would have been the better way to go.
Now, anyone can pay $8 a month to be 'verified' and spam/advertise as much as they want until they get shut down. Also, verified accounts appear higher in your feed and take precedence over unverified accounts.
If you were a scammer raking in thousands, you'd happily pay the fee to be potentially seen as more bona fide than before and arguably make people more susceptible to being scammed.
One of the biggest blockers for scammers is being noticed, but now a small fee all but guarantees you'll be seen by millions of people.
It's obviously costing Elon a small fortune as he recently had to sell around 9m of his Tesla shares.
You go from a system where active verification to get the blue tick thing was done, with largely worked.
Spam/bot accounts weren't verified, so educating this to people would have been the better way to go.
Now, anyone can pay $8 a month to be 'verified' and spam/advertise as much as they want until they get shut down. Also, verified accounts appear higher in your feed and take precedence over unverified accounts.
If you were a scammer raking in thousands, you'd happily pay the fee to be potentially seen as more bona fide than before and arguably make people more susceptible to being scammed.
One of the biggest blockers for scammers is being noticed, but now a small fee all but guarantees you'll be seen by millions of people.
It's obviously costing Elon a small fortune as he recently had to sell around 9m of his Tesla shares.
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I've noticed a difference in twitter over the last few days, don't seem to be getting the stuff I'd normally expect to see, it just seems a lot more random.
Always saw it as a decent diversion for a bit of down time as you get some decent article links and unusual takes on things, but wouldn't miss it if it switched off overnight. Don't think I'll bother seeking out another like mastodon or whatever, but wonder if this is the beginning of the end?
Always saw it as a decent diversion for a bit of down time as you get some decent article links and unusual takes on things, but wouldn't miss it if it switched off overnight. Don't think I'll bother seeking out another like mastodon or whatever, but wonder if this is the beginning of the end?
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Well I for one am glad Musk paid $44bn to make comedy legal on twitter.
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It's almost like Musk was forced to buy it despite not really wanting to, so has decided to just destroy it for pleasure.
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