1,200 More Employees Leave Twitter as the World Cup Nears – Tech.co

On Thursday, Twitter’s employees passed a deadline set by new owner and CEO, Elon Musk: They would have to agree to work according to his shared vision.Internal estimates show that around 1,200 employees opted for the other choice — three months of severance — and have now left a company that has already seen half its workforce quit or laid off in recent weeks.Worse, Twitter is about to face one of its busiest weekends of the year, as the much-tweeted FIFA World Cup begins.Is Twitter on the Edge?Many Twitter users have predicted the platform’s full-on collapse, though sporadic outages and security breaches seem more likely. Twitter’s own staff doesn’t have faith in the company’s future, either, according to a survey of more than 400 Twitter employees that found 89% of verified staff had no confidence in Elon Musk’s leadership.Twitter’s traffic is higher than ever before, even while users add new accounts on replacement websites such as Mastadon or Tumblr. Granted, that higher traffic may not be a good sign.banks in 1929: well look at how many people want to visit our banks right now pic.twitter.com/cn0TSM5Nom— Ken Cheng twitch.tv/kenchengcomedy (@kenchengcomedy) November 18, 2022Still, there’s plenty of profit tied to the social
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