Elon Musk began his impending acquisition of Twitter by carrying a sink into the company’s headquarters during a Wednesday afternoon visit.
Musk’s visit to the firm’s headquarters comes as he is anticipated to speak with staff before finalizing his company purchase by the end of the week.
Elon Musk began his impending acquisition of Twitter by carrying a sink into the company’s headquarters during a Wednesday afternoon visit.
Leslie Berland, Twitter’s Chief Marketing Officer, informed staff that Musk was coming this week, “meeting with folks, walking the halls, and continuing to dive in on the important work you all do. If you’re in SF and see him around, say hi!”
Earlier in the day, Musk stated that one of his favorite aspects of the platform was how it empowered citizen journalism.
“A beautiful thing about Twitter is how it empowers citizen journalism – people are able to disseminate news without an establishment bias,” Musk tweeted.
“And do you consider local news citizen journalism?” a reporter asked Musk. “Have you been inside newsrooms and seen the everyday workings to make statements on news bias?”
“Definitely closer to citizen journalism – local news organizations are underappreciated and should be given a lot more importance on Twitter,” Musk said.
Musk would apparently gut Twitter with large layoffs when he takes charge, eliminating the vast bulk of the firm.
Musk reportedly informed prospective investors that he planned to lay off “nearly 75 percent of Twitter’s 7,500 workers, whittling the company down to a skeleton staff of just over 2,000.”
According to the article, even if Musk’s takeover of Twitter fails, huge layoffs are still predicted, since the present executives intended to lay off around 25% of the company’s workforce.
Twitter’s executives’ planned layoffs helped to explain why the firm wanted to sell to Musk once he made the offer.
Employees at Twitter wrote Musk a list of requests at the start of the week, stating that reducing personnel “would damage Twitter’s capacity to serve the public discussion.”
“A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users’ and customers’ trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation,” the woke employees claimed. “A threat to workers at Twitter is a threat to Twitter’s future. These threats impact us as workers and demonstrate a fundamental disconnect with the realities of operating Twitter. They threaten our livelihoods, access to essential healthcare, and the ability for visa holders to stay in the country they work in. We cannot do our work in an environment of constant harassment and threats. Without our work, there is no Twitter.”