Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter, asking his followers whether they thought the former U.S. president Donald Trump’s account should be reinstated. According to early findings, nearly 60% of respondents agreed.
Musk tweeted the Latin phrase “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” which roughly translates as “The voice of the people is the voice of God.” There was a 24-hour polling period.
Musk, Twitter’s new owner, declared in May that he would lift the suspension of Trump’s account after the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year.
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Musk said that Trump’s account probably won’t be brought back. He also said that Twitter has brought back other controversial accounts that had been banned or suspended, such as the satirical website Babylon Bee and the comedian Kathy Griffin.
The company is undergoing a significant restructure that includes significant layoffs, and as part of it, Musk has decided to ask Twitter users for advice on who should be on the network.
Musk requested that people who write software code report to the 10th floor of Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco by early afternoon in a memo sent to the company’s remaining staff on Friday, which Reuters was able to view.
In a subsequent email, the businessman said: “If possible, I would like it if you could fly to SF to be present in person.” He also said that he would be in the office until midnight and leave early on Saturday.
In addition to a summary of what their software code has “achieved” over the past six months, he asked staff members to give him up to ten screenshots of the most important lines of code.
Musk instructed engineers to report at 2 p.m. on Friday and said, “There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better grasp the Twitter tech stack.”
The emails were sent out a day after it was projected that hundreds of Twitter staff members would be leaving the struggling social media business as a result of Elon Musk’s Thursday deadline for employees to sign up for “long hours at high intensity.”
The exodus intensifies the shift and commotion that Musk’s first three weeks as Twitter’s owner have seen. A regulator is looking at his firing of top management, including the former CEO, Parag Agarwal, and senior staff in charge of security and privacy.
Another White House representative chimed in, stating that Twitter ought to explain to Americans how it protects their data.
The company’s chief advertising officer, Robin Wheeler, was sacked, according to a report on Friday from the technology website Platformer.
With a salute emoji that has become a go-away gesture for departing employees, Wheeler, who informed staff in a statement last week that she was remaining, tweeted on Friday: “To the team and my clients… you were always my first and only priority.”
According to two individuals, Twitter informed staff members on Thursday that it would close its offices and restrict badge access until Monday. The headquarters’ reopening was not immediately confirmed by Reuters.
Three people told Reuters that the corporation began denying some employees who had turned down Musk’s offer access to company networks on Friday afternoon.
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According to a different source, one of Twitter’s three primary U.S. data centres, located at the SMF1 site close to Sacramento, would be shut down in order to reduce expenses.
Musk expressed concern that Twitter might not be able to “survive the oncoming economic collapse” in his first email to Twitter staff this month. As part of the policy change, he added, “Remote work will no longer be permitted, unless you have a particular exception.”
Moody’s took away Twitter’s B1 credit rating because of the changes. They said there wasn’t enough data to support the rating.
