
In case you missed it, it appears the end is near for Twitter. Yesterday (Nov. 17), reports that the app’s new owner, tech billionaire Elon Musk, lost a huge percentage of key employees surfaced online. Those who worked for the company were sent an “extremely hardcore” email about revamping the platform, which included longer hours. As a result, the remaining staff members left in droves.
As previously reported by REVOLT, Musk recently acquired the site in a massive billion-dollar deal earlier this year. Since taking over, the app has not seen much success. Within the last month, racist tweets skyrocketed as censorship of hate speech dwindled. Verified users were easily dismissed when Musk allowed anyone to have a blue check for just $8 per month and a litany of viral events have taken place. “According to the New York Times, employees at Twitter just began hanging up as Elon Musk was talking during [a] video conference call today, apparently deciding to quit and take the severance package as the 5 p.m. deadline passed,” Justin Baragona, a reporter for The Daily Beast tweeted yesterday.
Twitter's San Francisco headquarters has gone hardcore tonight. #TwitterTakeover pic.twitter.com/DoG5pDD4AD
— Muskrat McRatfu*ker needs to resign as CEO (@christoq) November 18, 2022
Kylie Robison, a reporter for Fortune, tweeted that most of the remaining staff members were only there because they were “stuck” on work visas. She added that employee badges had already begun being deactivated. Around that time, video of the San Francisco headquarters began to circulate online. In the clip, a projector placed the words, “Elon Musk: Insecure colonizer, space Karen, mediocre manchild, petty racist” and more just under the company’s logo.
With the news of the app possibly ending for good, users flocked to the app to express their favorite memories of the social media platform one last time. “Damn. Twitter has given me access to people, experts, data [and] opinions that have made me [a] more reflective, smarter, radicalized [and] better human being [and] teacher. I’ve met people who are my friends. They’ll never be a space like Black Twitter. Single fist raised. It’s been real,” one person wrote. Another asked, “Damn, Twitter. How is it possible that you died before Facebook?”
Take a look at the best reactions to the end of an era below.
Damn Twitter. How is it possible that you died before Facebook?
— P1×3L 👽🎨 🦃 (@C0D3001) November 18, 2022
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
Damn twitter really not about to survive the weekend pic.twitter.com/I83zLixmL7
— Prince Nokia™ (@LuckyBoyRVA) November 18, 2022
Damn. Twitter has given me access to people, experts, data, & opinions that have made me more reflective, smarter, radicalized, & better human being & teacher. I’ve met people who are my friends. They’ll never be a space like Black Twitter.
Single fist raised. It’s been real. https://t.co/4d1UxkNNKk
— Peter Darker (@IAmLeoGlaze) November 18, 2022
Damn, Twitter trending all over Twitter pic.twitter.com/vpjF7jQVFO
— Claws The Dragon ,/ (@ClawsTheDragon) November 18, 2022
Damn twitter really about to be gone by EOD on Friday. Gotta start thinking of a good final tweet but in the mean time pic.twitter.com/it8gfOXyGx
— Ellroy Jetson (@Ellroy_Jetson) November 18, 2022
Goodbye twitter, been a good run. #RIPTwitter pic.twitter.com/fkkUZWz2oQ
— Bish 🗽 (@thebishundercov) November 18, 2022
Ex-Twitter employees pitching investors next week. #RIPTwitter pic.twitter.com/aQe1Zpl2GT
— Pete Haas (@dimeford) November 18, 2022
It’s been a pleasure tweeting with y’all for the past 13 years. #RIPTwitter pic.twitter.com/XsLuMNi59A
— toby is the scranton strangler (@OhHELLNawl) November 18, 2022
Elon at the company christmas party at twitter hq this year with all the employees that are left #RIPTwitter pic.twitter.com/QtGd3XSjUT
— Pizza Dad (@Pizza__Dad) November 18, 2022
In one month, there has not been peace here on twitter😂.#doggy#RIPTwitter pic.twitter.com/3HU8p2VJNL
— SPYDEE (@i_wahabs) November 18, 2022
telling our grandkids how we used to communicate#RIPTwitter #ByeTwitter pic.twitter.com/TNMEiVSlMq
— luhvly (@servinghun) November 18, 2022
What I’m hearing from Twitter employees; It looks like roughly 75% of the remaining 3,700ish Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email.
Even though the deadline has passed, everyone still has access to their systems.
— Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) November 17, 2022
According to the New York Times, employees at Twitter just began hanging up as Elon Musk was talking during videoconference call today, apparently deciding to quit and take the severance package as the 5 pm deadline passed.https://t.co/tcky8nynnD pic.twitter.com/GGJTd3syTe
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) November 18, 2022