Twitter: An employee who is still at the company believes the social network will be “dead within a week”

Twitter is going through a very critical moment after its employees decided to retire en masse without accepting the extreme working conditions imposed Elon Muskcurrent owner and Executive Director The company After 3,500 layoffs that came with the arrival of the mogul to the board of directors of the social network, a new massive wave of employees also decided to leave, including several engineers in charge of keeping the platform afloat.

The crisis in the company is so great that even some of the few employees who decided to stay in it do not believe that it will survive, and even indicated a specific amount of time after which Twitter will die: in just a week. Travis Akersjournalist from Newsweeksaid that the employee of the company does not believe that the social network will go beyond the next 7 days and that it will inevitably disappear.

Twitter at one of its worst moments

Earlier this week, Musk gave the workers an ultimatum Twitter who survived the initial purge of 3,500 employees to either adjust to a harder work pace and long, busy workdays or have to leave the company with severance pay. In addition to canceling remote work, several workers felt it best to say goodbye to the company and quit en masse.

Last Thursday, November 17, offices Twitter closed and the measure will last until next Monday the 21st due to concerns that former employees of the company will manipulate the social network before leaving, according to Zoe SchifferChief Editor Platformer.

“Twitter just informed employees that with immediate effect all office buildings are temporarily closed and access to ID cards is suspended. No details about the reason were given. We heard that this is because Elon Musk and his team are horrified that the employees are about to sabotage the company. In addition, they are still trying to figure out which workers from Twitter they need to shut down”said the journalist.

From my side, Alex Heathpublisher edgereported that, despite the fact that many workers had been cut off access to the headquarters until November 21, some of them still have access to security systems. Twitter. “Technically, hundreds and hundreds of Twitter employees have quit but still have access to Twitter’s internal systems, and some have speculated that this is because the employees responsible for managing that access have also quit.”he pointed out Hit.

Twitter layoffs begin to be felt across the social network

The engineers who were part of Twitter and the few that remained there warned that there would be big problems with the functioning of the social network due to high volumes of traffic. Ben Kruegerreliability engineer Twittersaid MIT Technology Overview that the situation will be reproduced every time there are large-scale events or news that shake the world.

The engineer specifies that site outages will accumulate until finally Twitter becomes unusable, and this situation will be exacerbated by extreme fatigue and overwork of engineers. In fact, several users reported more outages on the platform on the night of November 17, which could be due to increased traffic due to Actual topic #RIPTwitter.

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