End layoffs on Twitter, the platform will seek to hire. Twitter Blue certification may not return on November 29th.
Twitter should no longer fire anyone. Elon Musk would have made this statement during a meeting with employees who remained in office after the request of the boss to work more and more. According to The Verge, who was able to hear part of the conversation, the company is even looking for employees for its engineers and sales people.
End layoffs on Twitter, the platform will look for employees
So Elon Musk would have made this announcement on the same day as many of the layoffs in the sales and partnerships teams. Robin Wheeler, head of advertising sales, and Maggie Sunivik, vice president of partnerships, were fired for not wanting to fire more. And all this happened after the new owner cut the payroll in half.
Elon Musk didn’t elaborate on the roles Twitter is looking for during this meeting, again according to The Verge, but in his own words, “For the most important hires, people who code well are the top priority.”Employees were able to take advantage of the meeting to ask the new CEO questions about the future of the company and, in particular, to try to find out if Twitter plans to move its headquarters to Texas, as Tesla did. According to Elon Musk, this is not planned, but having headquarters in both states may be quite logical.
Elon Musk also said that moving to Texas could “suggest Twitter went left to right,”which is not the case, he assures. “This is a centrist takeover of Twitter… to become a city square, we have to represent people from all walks of life, even if we don’t agree with them,” he added. According to The Verge, Twitter recently fired people who publicly disagreed with Elon Musk…
Twitter Blue certification may not return on November 29
In addition to answering questions about the company’s inner workings, Elon Musk added that Twitter may not resume paid certification until the end of the month. The platform has suspended registrations for its $8/month Blue subscription with certification enabled after it saw a big spike in spoof accounts and other fake accounts.
Elon Musk said the paid certification could return on November 29, but today he told employees that the system will not be restarted until he is confident that he will prevent these shenanigans. In addition, Twitter may offer different colors of ticks to individuals and organizations. Twitter already has a gray “Official”checkmark reserved for organizations, but the platform seems to want to make this indicator more visible and recognizable.
Refrain from re-running Blue Verified until you have high confidence that the impersonation has stopped.
It is likely that a different color check will be used for organizations than for individuals.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2022