Twitter reportedly lost multiple ‘critical’ engineering teams following a mass exodus that saw its workforce fall by 32 percent following Chief Twit Elon Musk‘s ultimatum to pledge to a ‘hardcore’ work environment or resign.
Musk sent an email to his remaining 3,700 workers on Wednesday and gave them a 5 pm ET Thursday deadline to either click a link confirming their willingness to work ‘long hours at high intensity’, or leave the company with three months severance pay.
Although it remains unclear exactly how many have confirmed their resignation, Fortune estimates between 1,000 to 1,200 employees have resigned so far, with Musk demanding all remaining coders show up at Twitter’s San Francisco HQ on Friday.
Many shared their departures on social media, including a viral video from Boston as workers counted down their last seconds at Twitter.
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Matthew Miller, whose LinkedIn profile states he’s worked as a Twitter engineer for 9 years, shared the video of himself and co-workers counting down the moment they no longer worked for the company following Musk’s deadline.
‘Happy New Year,’ Miller yelled inside Twitter’s Boston office. ‘Yay! Hooray! That’s proper for the circumstance.’
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Following the deadline, A former Twitter executive who recently left the company told CNN’s Oliver Darcy that: ‘Elon is finding out that he can’t bully top senior talent. They have lots of options and won’t put up with his antics.
‘[Twitter] will struggle just to keep the lights on.’
On Twitter, Musk appeared unfazed by the mass resignations, claiming the site just ‘hit another all-time high’ in usage. ‘Let that sink in.’
As chaos befell the sight over rumours that it was shutting down over the mass exodus, Musk added: ‘What should Twitter do next?’
About 32 percent of the employees who survived Musk’s initial layoffs of half its workforce after he took over opted out of his ultimatum by not clicking ‘yes’ on a form sent out asking them to confirm if they would stay on Twitter.
Following the mass resignations, Musk sent out an email asking ‘anyone who actually writes software’ to meet him at the Silicon Valley office on Friday at 2 pm, Fortune reported.
‘Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the last ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code,’ Musk wrote.
The CEO noted that he would remain at the headquarters until midnight and that he would be back in the office Saturday morning.
At the start of the month, there were more than 7,000 workers at the company.
Now, the estimated 2,500 who are said to remain, have been locked out of their offices until Monday at least over fears they could sabotage the site.
In his viral video, Miller and his co-workers went to check if their badges still worked at the company, and the engineer confirmed that they did.
There are also genuine fears online that with the mass exodus of engineers who prop up the site, it may soon start to fail.
#Twitterdown trended on Thursday night and Friday morning as concern grew.
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