Get to work Whole-Foods lefties and granola huggers. No more watching porn and video games from home during working hours. Yeh. It's gonna hurt for a while. Musk tells Twitter staff remote working will end In an email to staff, the owner of the social media firm said workers would be expected in the office for at least 40 hours a week, Bloomberg reported. Mr Musk added that there was "no way to sugar coat the message" that the slowing global economy was going to hit Twitter's advertising revenues. The BBC has contacted Twitter for comment. The San Francisco-based company told its staff in May 2020 that they could work from home "forever" if they wished to, because the company believed its remote working measures during Covid lockdowns had been a success. But Mr Musk has been on the record as having a dim view of remote work, writing on the site he now owns earlier this year that "all the Covid stay-at-home stuff has tricked people into thinking that you don't actually need to work hard. Rude awakening inbound!" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63582273
Twitter's new paid-for checkmark system has created a Wild West of scamming and parody https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-checkmark-system-created-wild-west-of-scamming-and-parody Twitter's new paid-for checkmark system has created a Wild West of scamming and parody. Verified accounts have impersonated public figures including LeBron James and George W. Bush. Billionaire Mark Cuban also told Musk he spent "too much time" muting newly verified accounts. (More at above url)
Struggle to survive: Elon Musk’s first email to Twitter staff is a bleak warning By Matt O'Brien November 11, 2022 https://www.smh.com.au/business/com...staff-is-a-bleak-warning-20221111-p5bxcl.html Elon Musk has emailed Twitter employees, most working remotely, ordering them to return to the office immediately for at least 40 hours a week and warning of “difficult times ahead.” A pair of Wednesday night missives seen by The Associated Press marked Musk’s first company-wide message to employees who survived last week’s mass layoffs. Many have had to rely on the billionaire Tesla CEO’s public tweets for clues about Twitter’s future. Elon Musk has painted a bleak economic future for Twitter.Credit:Bloomberg “Sorry that this is my first email to the whole company, but there is no way to sugarcoat the message,” wrote Musk, before he described a bleak economic climate for businesses like Twitter that rely almost entirely on advertising to make money. “The economic picture ahead is dire,” Musk said “Without significant subscription revenue, there is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn. We need roughly half of our revenue to be subscription.” Musk’s memo followed a livestreamed conversation trying to assuage major advertisers Wednesday, his most expansive public comments about Twitter’s direction since he closed a $US44 billion ($67 billion) deal to buy the social media platform late last month and dismissed its top executives. A number of well-known brands have paused advertising on Twitter as they wait to see how Musk’s proposals to relax content rules against hate and misinformation affect the tenor of the platform. Musk told employees “the priority over the past 10 days” was to develop and launch Twitter’s new subscription service for $US7.99 a month that includes a blue check mark next to the name of paid members — the mark was previously only for verified accounts. An executive last week said Twitter was cutting roughly 50 per cent of its workforce, which numbered 7,500 earlier this year. Musk had previously expressed distaste for Twitter’s pandemic-era remote work policies that enabled team leaders to decide if employees had to show up in the office. On Wednesday, he ordered all employees to return to the office Thursday. Musk told employees in the email that “remote work is no longer allowed” and the road ahead is “arduous and will require intense work to succeed.” He said he would personally review any request for an exception. Elon Musk has ordered all remote Twitter workers back to the office. Credit:AP Twitter hasn’t disclosed the total number of layoffs across its global workforce but told local and state officials in the US that it was cutting 784 workers at its San Francisco headquarters, about 200 elsewhere in California, and more than 400 in New York City, more than 200 in Seattle and about 80 in Atlanta. The exodus at Twitter is ongoing, including the company’s chief information security officer Lea Kissner, who tweeted Thursday that “I’ve made the hard decision to leave Twitter.” Cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos, a former Facebook security chief, tweeted on Thursday that there is a “serious risk of a breach with drastically reduced staff” that could also put Twitter at odds with a 2011 order from the Federal Trade Commission that required it to address serious data security lapses. “Twitter made huge strides towards a more rational internal security model and backsliding will put them in trouble with the FTC” and other regulators in the US and Europe, Stamos said. The FTC said in a statement Thursday that it is “tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern.” “No CEO or company is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees,” said the agency’s statement. “Our revised consent order gives us new tools to ensure compliance, and we are prepared to use them.” The FTC would not say whether it was investigating Twitter for potential violations. If it were, it is empowered to demand documents and depose employees. Twitter paid a $US150 million penalty in May for violating the 2011 consent order and its updated version established new procedures requiring the company to implement an enhanced privacy protection program as well as beefing up info security. AP
Elon musk has a real problem on his hands... It is multi-partite. He doesn't know how the hell to vet people, because he has Aspergers. He is not good with people to begin with. Like, this song? His brain would not be able to process it properly. Not his fault, it is just his affliction... He also is apparently too young in the mind to understand that Twitter does not matter in the long run. Shit like Twitter has been going for years before he was in diapers. He never looked into THAT side of the online communication world. Basically, he is a lost child with a mental disability who has so much money he does not know what to do with, and will squander it away by being a dumbass.