According to foreign media reports, Elon Musk, the new boss of the social media platform Twitter, has fired another group of engineers. According to current Twitter employees and two former employees who are aware of the situation, some of the fired engineers were on Twitter or internally. Critical remarks on the Slack messaging system.
It was not immediately clear how many engineers were fired, but sources familiar with the matter estimated as many as 20, according to NBC News.
Some of the fired engineers blasted their bosses on Twitter, while others criticized the company on an internal Slack platform known as the “social pantry,” according to people familiar with the matter.
After Twitter was acquired by Musk, the company fell into chaos. In addition to the dismissal of half of the employees, the dismissal of the top management and the disbandment of the board of directors, Musk also said that Twitter was at risk of bankruptcy, and the platform policy was changed day and night, and the fee system was introduced. Gogo and the official certification are grayed out, but then abolished. Even Musk himself admitted that Twitter will do a lot of “stupid things” during the reform period.
Faced with employee discontent, Musk tweeted on Monday that he had fired at least one engineer who had publicly criticized him on Twitter.Some of the fired engineers also confirmed on Twitterthis matter。
After the first batch of layoffs two weeks ago, Musk sent the latest batch of dismissal emails at around 4:30 on Tuesday to “people who have criticized Musk in any of the company’s Slack channels or on Twitter in the past 24 hours.”
The recently fired Twitter employee showed the media an email from the company, citing “recent actions” as the reason for his dismissal. Some engineers were blocked from the company’s system without formal notice from the company.
“I can’t even describe how much institutional knowledge these people took with them, people who were seen as the ones who mightn’t get rid of them,” said current employees.
Another current employee said supervisors had given orders to keep quiet regarding any mistakes Twitter made under Musk.
Twitter and Musk didn’t respond to requests for comment, but Musk tweeted: “I apologize for firing these geniuses, whose enormous talents will no doubt be of great use elsewhere.”