Twitter proprietor Elon Musk continued to hammer down on the employees he had left on Wednesday in a midnight electronic mail that provided them a selection: Be part of the brand new ‘hardcore’ Twitter or go away.

In the e-mail, reported by the Washington Post, the tech billionaire instructed workers that Twitter would “need to be extremely hardcore” going ahead. In Musk parlance, this apparently means “working long hours at high intensity” and delivering an “exceptional performance,” in keeping with the e-mail. Employees who wished to be part of the brand new Twitter had been instructed they needed to signal a pledge.

“If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below,” Musk wrote within the electronic mail, which included a hyperlink to the net type.

Those who didn’t like Musk’s imaginative and prescient, in the meantime, might select to go away the corporate with three months of severance. The chief twit gave workers till 5 p.m. ET on Thursday to signal the pledge.

The Post’s report was corroborated by Gergely Orosz, creator of the Pragmatic Engineer publication on Substack, and CNN, which posted a duplicate of the e-mail on Twitter.

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Gizmodo reached out to Twitter for confirmation on Wednesday morning but did not receive a response. After Musk’s layoffs, Twitter no longer has a communications department.

In addition to cutting Twitter’s workforce in half since he took ownership of the company, Musk appears to be focused on weeding out anyone who criticizes or disagrees with him. On Tuesday, the Twitter owner fired employees who were shitposting about him in Slack with an email, which stated that their behavior had “violated company policy.”

After some employees shared that they had been fired on Twitter, Musk mocked them in a tweet.

“I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere,” Musk tweeted.

Tuesday wasn’t the only day Musk quashed rebellion, though. One day earlier, Musk fired Eric Frohnhoefer, a software engineer who had been at the company for more than eight years, with a tweet. Frohnhoefer had disagreed with Musk in public about why Twitter was running slow in some countries. Musk later deleted the tweet where he said Frohnhoefer was fired, even though it had already spread far and wide by then.

Orosz, the newsletter author, said on Wednesday that software engineers at Twitter told him they were relieved to receive Musk’s midnight email giving them the choice to leave with pay.

“Many wanted to leave and were interviewing so this makes it easy for them [to] leave,” Orosz tweeted. “For those on visas tied to employment, this won’t make it easier though.”