Twitter employees have reason to be concerned. Since Elon Musk is going to put main online social, he is preparing to lay off nearly 75% of the workforce, according to information obtained by the Washington Post from investors. Concretely, this means that only 2,000 employees will remain to manage the platform, compared to 7,500 at present.
Elon Musk project worries Twitter employees
According to Edwin Chen, this change will be far from trivial. scientist interviews with our colleagues. Twitter users will feel the consequences immediately and may, in particular, be at risk of hacking and massive offensive content. Denial Threats technique quite numerous indeed, and with such a small staff, it will be very difficult for the remaining staff to cope with the situation. As on You can imagine, this information produced the effect of an internal shock. Sean Edgett, Twitter’s chief legal officer, sent a memo to employees. Wanting to reassure them, he explains to them that “cost-saving discussions are on hold until the merger agreement is signed.” However, employees are still very worried, and in the Slack chat, many oscillate between anger and resignation, while others try not to lose heart by making fun of the situation. In his conversations with investors, Elon Musk reportedly explained that these drastic staff cuts are just the first step in Twitter’s recovery strategy. Then he wants to recruit personnel more efficient and rely on advantageous features. Specifically, he’s thinking about a new subscription service that allows people to subscribe exclusively to the person they want to follow. However, it is doubtful that this strategy will work. And, according to our colleagues, the expected gain from such a formula may turn out to be quite small. Elon Musk also mentioned son intention to turn Twitter into “X”, the application “for everything”. The Tesla boss is actually inspired by China’s Tencent WeChat platform, and he would like to offer a similar formula in Europe and the US. In addition to being a network social, it offers payment services in particular, as well as some features that Internet users can use in their daily lives: ordering food, calling a taxi… It remains to be seen how serious this reservation project is. If that were the case, we might be worried about the future of Twitter, which would be even harder than it is today to moderate content and fight fraud.
