Elon Musk despatched a message to Twitter workers telling them that that they had till Thursday to contemplate whether or not they wished to remain on for “working long hours at high intensity” or take a severance package deal of three months’ pay. Musk instructed Twitter staff that anybody who had not clicked on a hyperlink confirming “you want to be part of the new Twitter” by Thursday night New York time can be thought-about to have give up.

“Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful,” the message stated.

A replica of the message, which was reported by The Washington Post, was reviewed by Reuters. An individual who had obtained the message on Twitter confirmed its content material.

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Reuters.

“Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore,” the message from Musk stated. “This will mean long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”

Musk stated Twitter can be “much more engineering-driven” beneath his management, including that “those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway.”

Twitter laid off half of its workforce earlier this month shortly after Musk took management of the social media firm. Musk has criticized Twitter’s spending and work tradition and stated the corporate wants steep value cuts and a reboot of its providers.

Some Twitter staff who had criticized Musk publicly tweeted earlier that that they had been let go.

Meanwhile, Musk stated on Tuesday that Twitter’s sought-after blue verify subscription service shall be relaunched on November 29, a minor delay from his preliminary tentative timeline to carry again the service on the social media platform.

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