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Trolling and teasing critics, Musk to roll out revamped Twitter after firing half the 7,500 workforce


WASHINGTON: Twitter hegemony Elon Musk will lay off half of the social media company’s 7,500 employees this weekend amid a public feud with the populace and top liberal and progressive elites, even leaders. American and world leaders are also concerned about the changes he is causing at one of the world’s most influential platforms.
Musk is also canceling Twitter’s work-from-anywhere policy, several tech publications reported on Thursday, amid concerns from labor activists about Twitter employees’ accounts. are required to work more than 80 hours a week.
Elon Musk’s inner assistant team, mainly from Tesla and SpaceX are said to be working through the weekend to finalize the layoffs before revamping and introducing new features on Twitter, including an $8/month subscription to blue verification ticks and paid video feature.
Although Musk has indicated that registering the blue tick will be based on purchasing power parity in developing countries and will therefore cost less, even world leaders, most use Twitter for messaging, has expressed concern about the changes.
“We can also do some diplomatic activities with him,” said the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with a domestic outlet. Erdogan has 19.5 million followers on Twitter. As prime minister of India Narendra Modi (84 million followers) and President Biden (35 million followers) and former President Barack Obama (134 million followers), he frequently tweets to get his message out.
US celebrities, public intellectuals and liberal lawmakers have been more outspoken, arguing that it is their tweets that provide content and value to Twitter and that Musk should pay them instead. opposite.
On Thursday, who changed his profile bioo from Chief Twit to Twitter Complaint Hotline Moderator, Democratic Party lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, who tweeted, “Lmao at a billionaire trying selling people with the idea that “free speech” is actually $8/mo subscription.”
“Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8,” Musk replied sourly, after tweeting earlier, “Dear all complainers, please keep complaining, but it will cost 8 dollars.”
Musk later mocked Cortez, posting a photo of the $58 Periwinkle sweater AOC works on, while also comparing the $8 that elites spend on a half-hour Starbucks drink to that of a half-hour Starbucks drink. $8 fee for a month-long Twitter service.
The AOC countered that the sweater was made in the United States by Union workers “earning a living wage, adequate health care and free from racial discrimination in their workplaces.” .”
Musk also went on to talk about his new acquisition amid concerns that his libertarianism will put people off by previous propensity to sell lies and conspiracy theories.
“Twitter is simply the coolest place on the Internet. That’s why you’re reading this tweet right now,” he said in another post, talking about the platform. “Because it involves billions of two-way interactions every day, Twitter can be seen as a collective, cybernetic superintelligence… …with a lot of room for improvement,” he added.

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