Twitter apocalypse gains speed under Elon’s ‘hardcore’ approach

Scoop: I am hearing far fewer than expected devs hit "yes".

Elon sent out an email relaxing remote working from the former draconian policy.

I'm hearing he is having meetings w top engineers to convince them to stay.

Sounds like playing hardball does not work. Ofc it doesn't. https://t.co/VrPEn4IwBG

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 17, 2022

Word inside Twitter is that A LOT of employees are not saying “yes” to staying at Musk’s “extremely hardcore Twitter 2.0.” He has been meeting today with engineers to convince them to stay. His deadline to decide to stay or leave expired 6 min ago. https://t.co/IErjQTMRE6

— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 17, 2022

!!! “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.”https://t.co/5lmWQHX2ft

— Nitasha Tiku (@nitashatiku) November 18, 2022

Hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter employees have technically resigned but still have access to Twitter’s internal systems, with some speculating it is because the employees tasked with managing that access also resigned.

— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 18, 2022

Refusing to concede, Kari Lake, the defeated Republican candidate for Arizona governor, said she is assembling lawyers and collecting evidence of voters having trouble casting ballots on Election Day. https://t.co/SAJIgX7afe

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 17, 2022