Elon Musk says he had “no choice” over firings

Twitter staff reportedly received an unsigned email on Thursday announcing the layoffs would come Friday morning (today).

Employees will be notified either through their official company email accounts if they still have jobs, or through their personal email accounts if their “employment is affected,” according to NBCNews.

Everyone affected by the layoffs will receive an email by 9 a.m. PST Friday, according to the internal memo.

In anticipation of the layoff of more than half of the company’s workforce on Friday, some Twitter employees are calling the day “The Snap,” referring to the Marvel villain’s extermination of half of all life in the universe.

Casey Newton, a former editor for The Verge, tweeted that dozens of Twitter employees are also posting possible resignations on Slack.

“We are grateful for your contributions to Twitter and your patience as we go through this process,” Twitter reported to its staff.

Twitter has reportedly been sued over new CEO Elon Musk’s plan to cut thousands of jobs at the company.

A class-action lawsuit was filed Thursday in San Francisco federal court, Bloomberg News reported.

The lawsuit reportedly cited the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which restricts large companies from implementing massive layoffs without at least 60 days’ notice to employees.

Twitter staff are reportedly trying to quickly remove the link between their accounts on the platform from their work emails because the company requires the two to be connected.

Several reports indicate that employees have begun to realize that they have been terminated due to their work logins not working.

The company said in a memo earlier that it was laying off employees in “an effort to put Twitter on a healthy path.”

“It’s total chaos, the house is melting down, everybody’s looking at this email,” one employee said, according to NBCNews.

Twitter may have lost more than a million accounts since new CEO Elon Musk took over the company, a new report says.

Over 850,000 accounts were deactivated and nearly 500,000 were suspended, according to an estimate by Bot Sentinel, a company that tracks inauthentic behavior on Twitter.

“Based on our internal data, we estimate that 877,000 Twitter accounts were deactivated and another 497,000 suspended between October 27th and November 1st. That’s more than double the usual number,” tweeted Christopher Bouzy, founder of Bot Sentinel.

The estimate suggests there may have been a nearly 200 percent increase in account losses on the microblogging platform since the multi-billionaire closed the deal and bought the social media company.

Elon Musk’s memo to Twitter employees telling them they’ve been fired can be read below.

In an effort to put Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday. We recognize that this will affect a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company’s success going forward.

Given the nature of our distributed workforce and our desire to inform affected individuals as quickly as possible, communication for this process will be via email. No later than At 9 a.m. PST on Friday, November 4th, everyone will receive an individual email with the subject line: Your role on Twitter. Check your email, including your spam folder.

– If your employment is not affected, you will receive a message via your Twitter email.

– If your employment is affected, you will receive a message with the next step via your personal email.

– If you do not receive an email from twitter-hr@ by 5:00 PM PST on Friday, November 4, send an email to peoplequestions@twitter.com.

To ensure the security of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data, our offices will be temporarily closed and all access to the brand will be suspended. If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home.

We recognize that this is an incredibly challenging experience to go through, whether you are affected or not. Thank you for continuing to follow Twitter’s policies prohibiting you from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere.

We appreciate your contributions to Twitter and your patience as we go through this process.