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Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover and Continuous Firings · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Welcome back to the Elon Musk podcast.
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  This episode will be discussing the latest news on Elon musk's
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  takeover of Twitter. And the continuous slashing of
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  the company's employee count. And in just 6 months of
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  ownership musk, his cut Twitter's Workforce down by
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  almost 90% with layoffs and firings.
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  Continuing on a rolling basis and is Twitter's headcount
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  headsets lowest level and many years, blue sky and
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  decentralized platform co-founded by former CEO of
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  Twitter Jack. Do See his gain interest among
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  many Twitter users and despite Dorsey being a sizable investor
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  in musk's new Twitter is criticized, musk's operation of
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  the company stating that he has not acted right since taking
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  over and in the six months since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the
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  company's employee count. His dwindled, by almost 90% as
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  the billionaire entrepreneur has continuously slashed, the
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  workforce through layoffs, and firings.
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  Some employees have Have reportedly been interrogated.
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  About leaks before being let go, While others have simply quit or
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  taken jobs outside of Twitter. The remaining staff members
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  scrambled to meet musk's demands.
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  While dealing with constant site issues is, they are fewer people
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  to help out with a user's. Now, as a result, Twitter is
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  head, count is now down to its lowest level in many, many
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  years. Currently Twitter has around 1
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  thousand full-time employees. According to Two sources,
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  familiar with the matter. And musk has previously stated
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  the Twitter. Had 1500 people remaining on
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  staff. But it was unclear whether
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  contract workers were included in that number.
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  The sources said that Twitter's, headcount is closer to 1,000
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  employees. Particularly, when excluding any
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  remaining contract workers who are not considered full-time
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  staff and are technically employed by a third party musk
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  is also ended contracts for thousands of such workers and
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  Ask steak over Twitter has been fraught with difficulties with a
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  particularly large layoffs and a mass resignation occurring.
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  Shortly after the deal closed, the company's full-time.
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  Headcount fell below, 2,000 people earlier this year with
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  hundreds of workers leaving in the preceding, two months now,
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  getting closer to 1,000 workers means Twitter's head.
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  Count is down by almost 90% from just before musk took over when
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  the company had roughly 7,500 employees.
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  And Those reviews are constant in musk's Twitter and internal
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  directives for what projects and work our priorities change
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  constantly according to former employees.
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  Now, remaining workers scramble to meet musk's demand, while
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  also dealing with near constant problems that crop up on the
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  site is there are fewer people on hand to help out and more
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  frequently employees. That musk's Twitter are fired or
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  let. Go piecemeal with little to no
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  explanation after spending, we Reports of their work for
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  review. Several have also been
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  interrogated about leaks to the media.
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  One of the sources said this before, being fired in such
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  workers have been pulled into one-on-one meetings with a
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  member of musk's actual security team seemingly at random and
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  also questioned. Now Twitter's user base is
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  increased slightly over the past six months with just over 250
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  million active daily users up from Out 244 million six months
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  ago, according to data, from Epi Topia, however, downloads of the
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  app have fallen by nearly 15% in the last three months in the
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  early weeks of musk's takeover downloads and usage surged in
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  musk. Has previously said, it is
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  ambition, is to get Twitter to 1 billion users each month by next
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  year apt. Otiot app, Topia data shows,
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  Twitter has almost 400 million monthly active Of users.
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  The Mau is currently and Twitter competitors have not caught on
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  but Blue Sky. A decentralized platform
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  co-founded by Jack Dorsey the former CEO Twitter has gained
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  Interest. Really the platform released its
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  app at the end of April and is currently staggering the
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  onboarding of users by keeping it invite only and the waitlist
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  exceeds 1 million people. According to Blue Sky, CEO J.
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  Graber, I'm on the wait list for Blue Sky.
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  an invite to Blue Sky when I get in if you subscribe and also, if
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  you give a comment a good review, on Apple podcast, I
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  available through when you know, when I get invited.
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  That would be really great help out the show.
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  And also you might get an invite to Blue Sky, which Seems like a
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  pretty cool Twitter alternative. Now the waitlist exceeds a
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  million people though according to Blue Sky, CEO J.
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  Graber, and over the weekend. Dorsey took two blue sky to
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  criticize musk and his operation of Twitter as fellow billionaire
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  whom Dorsey. Once said, he trusted in
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  actively work to bring into the company and he said he's not
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  acted right since taking over Twitter.
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  Nonetheless Dorsey Still Remains a sizable investor in mosques
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  new Twitter. Dorsey also said, the Twitter
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  could not have survived as a public company and he admitted
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  that he hired too many employees at Twitter when he ran it.
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  And speaking of companies with blue, check marks, Google has
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  announced a new feature for Gmail that aims to help users
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  verify the legitimacy of incoming emails in a recent blog
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  post, the tech giant revealed that Gmail will Now display a
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  blue checkmark next to a sender's name.
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  To indicate that their identity has been verified.
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  The check mark is part of Al's existing brand indicators for
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  messaging identity that be I am I feature which requires
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  companies to authenticate the brand logo, the use as their
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  email, Avatar to ensure that it belongs to them companies that
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  have already adopted be, I am, I will automatically receive this
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  check mark the new verify check. Mark is designed to help users,
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  distinguish between legitimate emails and scams.
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  However, over the checkmark displays a message, that says,
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  the sender of this email has verified I'd that they own the
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  domain and profile image, they're using to send the email
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  and Google notes that email, authentication can help users
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  and security systems identify and stop spam while also
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  allowing senders to leverage their brand, trust the addition
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  of the more visible check mark could help users quickly.
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  Identify legitimate centers, especially if they're not
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  familiar with be I am I approve logos or aren't sure whether an
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  email is legitimate. The verified check mark builds
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  upon Gmail's existing be IMI feature, which requires
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  companies to identify that the brand logo the using as their
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  email Avatar, actually belongs to them.
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  And this helps the users know that the logos legitimate.
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  If the email is not a phishing attempt.
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  And Google's addition of a more visible checkmark might also
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  help combat phishing attempts and email scams by allowing
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  users to quickly identify whether an email is from a
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  legitimate sender or legitimate company.
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  The move is similar. Google's recent change to
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  replace the lock icon that appears in Chrome's address bar
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  with a tuner icon, which indicates that a website is
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  using the safer HTTP protocol and Google's rolling out
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  verified, check marks starting today, across both workspace
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  accounts and personal Google accounts.
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  So users may see blue check marks in their emails, very
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  soon. The addition of this new feature
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  is part of Google's ongoing efforts to improve email
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  security and make it easier. For users to identify
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  legitimate. People companies in emails and
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  building upon the be. I am I feature Google's taking a
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  step forward like Twitter. Did it ensuring that emails or
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  authenticated? And that users can trust the
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  people from which the emails. They receive.
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