It all started when Elon Musk entered Twitter’s headquarters with a sink. When this event happened, the calendars were showing October 26. Everyone could not hide their surprise at this event. Some said that this symbolizes the cleanup operation that Elon Musk will carry out on Twitter. However, no one expected that Musk’s arrival on Twitter would be so turbulent! Almost a very short time later, a new one was added to every new event on the social media platform. This process, which started in earnest with the firing of CEO Parag Agrawal and some senior executives, led to the sale of paid blue ticks, the firing of many Twitter employees, and Musk’s ultimatum to the employees. Twitter employees launched one of the biggest events of the last 24 hours due to Musk’s ultimatum.
MUSK’S ULTIMATOM
In his ultimatum, Musk told Twitter employees, “Either agree to work hard for long hours or leave the company with your 3 months’ compensation.” said. The famous billionaire, who asked his employees to choose one of the two, gave them until 5 pm ET on Thursday to make a choice. Who knew that this ultimatum given by Musk would backfire…
Employees literally raised the flag of revolt in the face of this ultimatum they received in an email from Musk. Many Twitter employees resigned after Musk called on company employees to either accept or leave. The wave of layoffs on Twitter has been replaced by a wave of resignations this time. A survey revealed how employees reacted to Musk’s ultimatum.
According to the BBC’s report, in an online survey, 42% of 180 employees said, “I use the exit option, I am free!” gave the answer. So they chose to leave the company. A quarter of respondents said they “reluctantly” chose to stay, and only 7% clicked “yes” to stay.
Allegedly, fearing that Twitter will be sabotaged, Elon Musk temporarily closed the offices until Monday, November 21. It was also claimed that the entrance cards of Twitter employees were canceled. All of this has led to concerns that if any mishap occurs in the functioning of Twitter, one of the world’s largest social media platforms, there may be major problems due to the inability of employees to enter the offices.
LET’S COME IS THE END OF TWITTER? TO YOUR QUESTION… HERE IS WHAT WE HAVE
It is not possible to give a definite answer to this question. However, we have some positive or negative findings. Let’s start with the negatives first.
“IN MANY AREAS THERE’S NO ONE LEFT TO FIX THINGS”
Among the layoffs were many engineers responsible for fixing bugs and preventing service disruptions, the Guardian reported. Quite a few of those who left are engineers, developers, and coders, according to their Twitter bio. A person who did not want to be named said the following statement that caused many users to worry: “If Twitter crashes (disbands), there will be no one to fix things in many areas.”
This word, of course, frightened many users. Because this meant that in the event of a mishap, there could be problems or problems accessing Twitter and it would be harder than ever to fix that problem or issues. The person who did not wish to be named did not provide a source for his words. So this remained just a claim.
ABOUT A WEEK LEFT FOR TWITTER’S ‘DEAD’
Another claim came from Newsweek columnist Travis Akers. “About a week until Twitter is dead,” Akers said of one of the remaining Twitter employees. said he said. Akers also did not share information about the source of the word, but what he said was enough to worry many users.
ELON MUSK’S “TRUMBSTONE” SHARING
Elon Musk continued to share while his employees resigned from the company. The famous billionaire said first, “The best stays, so I’m not too worried.” Later, he shared a photo of a tombstone with the Twitter logo on it.
“NO EMPLOYEES MAINTAINING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE”
Zoë Schiffer, the editor of Platformer, who shared the developments regarding Twitter on her Twitter account, made an interesting point in one of her recent tweets. Schiffer shared that the designers and chief web engineer who led Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue project with blue ticks left. In addition, Schiffer said that many of Twitter’s employees who protect its critical infrastructure have resigned.
HERE ARE POSSIBLE DISASTER Scenarios
“Is this really the end of Twitter?” one of those who asked was Zoe Kleinman from the BBC. Kleinman discussed the two biggest potential disasters that could knock the “Bluebird” from its perch very quickly.
HACKING
Twitter, like all major websites, is constantly under attack by malicious people. Moreover, there are personal Twitter accounts of world leaders, politicians and celebrities with millions of followers on Twitter. This increases the appetite of hackers for Twitter even more. Providing cyber security is very important, especially if you are at the head of a social media platform used by millions of people. But last week, Lea Kissner, Twitter’s head of cybersecurity, left the company. It is not yet known who replaced him. It is also unknown if someone replaced him.
Twitter’s security can be pretty solid. However, in order to keep together a site used by 300 million people every month, continuous maintenance is required. So Twitter can serve for a longer period of time as it is, but security that is constantly updated and maintained against new malicious actors is a must.
SERVERS
In the second potential disaster scenario, Kleinman discusses the server shutdown. Accordingly, if the servers are accidentally disabled by a malicious person or during a routine maintenance that is not properly supervised, Twitter could be doomed. Without servers, no digital medium, whether it’s Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, cannot exist. Servers are the body and brain of these platforms.
Maybe Elon Musk took the measures he took as a result of resignations (such as closing the offices, canceling the entrance cards) so that a malicious employee would not disable the servers, who knows? However, servers need to be properly and routinely audited and maintained. It is not known if any of the employees who resigned from Twitter should be involved with this maintenance right now, or keeping these high-heat servers cool, checking the electricity supplies they need constantly. It is one of the last things to be desired that something goes wrong at one of these stages and an employee who deals with this situation is not in the company.
POSITIVE NEWS: USING TWITTER, INTERVIEWING WITH EMPLOYEES…
Is the news always bad? Actually not. Yes, many employees have resigned from Twitter. Yes, many international media organizations evaluated this situation as a crisis. However, there are concrete signs that Twitter can still survive and even get stronger.
ELON MUSK’S RECORD SHARING
Twitter broke a record after Elon Musk took over. Again, according to the information provided by Musk, Twitter reached the highest number of active users of all time on November 11. Thus, Twitter broke a record in the number of active users. This was good news for the platform, which announced that it will start selling paid blue ticks.
One of these news came on the day that many employees resigned. As the world talked about the news of many employees quitting Twitter, Elon Musk tweeted, “And… we hit an all-time high in Twitter usage.” He then tweeted, “A record number of users are logging into Twitter to see if Twitter is dead and ironically making it livelier than ever!” used the phrases.
In other words, although Twitter may seem turbulent, not only did it die in this process, but it revived even more and experienced one of its most active periods. This has been one of the most tangible proofs that Twitter will not die.
PERSONAL INTERVIEW
Perhaps Elon Musk has succeeded in convincing some of his most critical employees to return to the company. This is still a possibility that should be kept in mind. Because someone who was in contact with his colleagues on Twitter during the daytime and a recently departed employee suggested that Musk tried to persuade some senior employees to stay in touch. So maybe the decision of the senior staff may have changed, and this may help Twitter forget about the events and move on to the recovery process quickly.
FINALLY…
Is it the end of Twitter, or will the events bring about the end of Twitter? We don’t know this for sure. The above are just possible scenarios. But there is only one thing we know; that is, Elon Musk, who wants his employees to work hard for long hours, is very busy right now.