Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk rebuilds the short message service without further ado with a new and significantly more expensive subscription, but without any consideration for employees. The Twitter Blue transition is scheduled for November 7, or the staff responsible for implementation will be laid off.
New subscription or employees are expelled
I like the site the edge reports that Elon Musk, who officially took over Twitter on October 28 and delisted it, is said to have given his employees an ultimatum. As a result, employees must use the paid subscription TwitterBluewhich currently costs $4.99, to a more expensive subscription of $19.99 before November 7, 2022, or be terminated for non-compliance.
The website was thus Twitter’s internal correspondence, which is to verify facts, which are said to have been confirmed by people familiar with the matter.
Elon Musk had already made it clear in the months leading up to his takeover that the way Twitter verified its accounts and dealt with bots needed to be overhauled. Then last weekend he wrote: “The entire verification process is currently being reviewed.“.
The entire verification process is being renewed at the moment.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 30, 2022
Casey Newton from Platforms was the first to report that Twitter is considering charging for account verification. This feature must now be included in the “Twitter Blue” subscription and then remain exclusive to the subscription.
New subscription or users lose verification
After account verification becomes part of the $19.99 subscription, verified users will have 90 days to complete the new subscription. Otherwise, users will lose their verification and the blue mark.
Elon Musk is said to be planning a wave of layoffs
What the edge Furthermore, Elon Musk, with the help of Tesla engineers whom he brought to Twitter as consultants, is planning massive layoffs in middle management and among programmers who recently contributed nothing to the short message service’s code base.
Therefore, the layoffs should begin this week, and the corresponding lists of affected employees are already being drawn up. Staff tasked with running projects commissioned by Elon Musk since he took control Thursday night are said to work late into the night and into the weekend.
The return of Donald Trump is (not) a problem
Since the controversial billionaire took over Twitter, there has also been some debate over whether former US President Donald Trump would return. His user account was denied due to a large number of false statements, as well as numerous cases of “hate speech‘ as a direct consequence of the failed coup attempt by Trump supporters on Capitol Hill in January 2021. Elon Musk has so far been very evasive on this question.
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me if Trump was going to come back on this platform, Twitter would be minting money!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2022
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