Twitter It is going through the worst crisis in its history and the events that have occurred in the last day have put the company on high alert. The resignation of hundreds of employees who worked in critical areas threaten the continuity of the platform. Elon Musk You know things could get out of control and has called a meeting with his team of engineers.
In accordance with journalist Zoë Schiffer, the CEO of Twitter sent an email to the engineers who still work in the company. Despite having announced the closure of the offices as a protection measure against sabotage, Elon Musk told them to show up at 2 PM. The details are unknown, although it is known that the tycoon made a special request.
Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor today at 2 pm Before you do, email me a detailed summary of what your code has accomplished in the last 6 months.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk would also have asked his engineers to send 10 screenshots of your most prominent lines of code. The report does not reveal any further details of this particular request, which is strange. Sending code captures without providing context would be meaningless, as would calling a meeting in offices closed until November 21.
Finally, Elon Musk also contacted engineers who work remotely. Despite being a staunch opponent of teleworking, Musk knows that he needs all the help he can get right now. In an email he mentioned that he would like to make a video call, although he invited them to take a flight to San Francisco to physically go to the offices.
The Twitter situation has worsened in recent hours after the departure of hundreds of employees. The heavy-handed strategy proposed by Elon Musk failed and hours after announcing the ultimatum, the new owner had to soften a bit. The change in attitude did not work and when the deadline expired, workers announced their departure on Slack channels and posted videos on the social network.
The exodus gave rise to #RIPTwitter became a trend at night and thousands of users shared experiences before Twitter ceased to exist. Elon Musk took things the way he knows best: with memes. The owner of the company posted some images and tweets celebrating historical figures in the use of the platform.
But behind the memes hides an uncomfortable truth for the owner of Twitter. If Elon Musk does not take extraordinary measures, the platform could collapse in no time. A report of The Verge mentions that multiple critical divisions within the company were left without staffincluding the Font-end teams and traffic that route the engineering requests to the Back-end services.
The team that maintains the core libraries used by all Twitter engineers no longer exists, posing a serious risk. The departure of employees due to the wave of layoffs and resignations left the platform vulnerable. Some departments, such as communication or moderation, stopped operating weeks ago, while key security and privacy personnel left their posts.
Will it be the end of Twitter as we know it?
It is impossible to predict if Twitter will die today, tomorrow or next week. Elon Musk’s decisions change with the weather and it is unknown what steps he will take to resolve the situation. The platform is not only facing an internal crisis, but also scrutiny from regulators and the US government.
A report of Bloomberg mentions that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is investigating the purchase of Twitter for possible risks to national security. The involvement of investors such as Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund ignited red flags. US lawmakers fear that these countries could access the data of their citizens.