Elon Musk despatched a message to Twitter employees telling them that that they had till Thursday to contemplate whether or not they wished to remain on for “working lengthy hours at excessive depth” or take a severance bundle of three months’ pay. Musk advised Twitter staff that anybody who had not clicked on a hyperlink confirming “you wish to be a part of the brand new Twitter” by Thursday night New York time can be thought-about to have stop.

“No matter choice you make, thanks to your efforts to make Twitter profitable,” the message stated.

A replica of the message, which was reported by The Washington Put up, was reviewed by Reuters. An individual who had acquired the message on Twitter confirmed its content material.

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Reuters.

“Going ahead, to construct a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and achieve an more and more aggressive world, we are going to have to be extraordinarily hardcore,” the message from Musk stated. “This can imply lengthy hours at excessive depth. Solely distinctive efficiency will represent a passing grade.”

Musk stated Twitter can be “rather more engineering-driven” below his management, including that “these writing nice code will represent nearly all of our group and have the best sway.”

Twitter laid off half of its workforce earlier this month shortly after Musk took management of the social media firm. Musk has criticized Twitter’s spending and work tradition and stated the corporate wants steep price cuts and a reboot of its providers.

Some Twitter staff who had criticized Musk publicly tweeted earlier that that they had been let go.

In the meantime, Musk stated on Tuesday that Twitter’s sought-after blue examine subscription service will likely be relaunched on November 29, a minor delay from his preliminary tentative timeline to deliver again the service on the social media platform.

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