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Twitter's Struggles Continue: More Layoffs and Unhappy Employees · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hi and welcome to the latest episode of the Elon Musk
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  podcast. Today, we're going to be
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  discussing a recent outage at Twitter that left employees
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  without accessed to one of their most important communication
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  tools slack. And what started as a routine
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  maintenance turned out to be a deliberate shut down leaving
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  engineer's with no way to chat and no way to ship their code.
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  Now resulting in most of them taking the day off and as will
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  explore in this episode Slack. Ike is not just a messaging app
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  but it's also a critical repository for important,
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  conversations, code, Snippets and other data for the employees
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  to complete their tasks. It's become so important to
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  daily work. That without it employees, May
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  struggle to find the information that they need leading to
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  potential delays and setbacks. Now join us as we delve into the
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  Twitter slack outage in the impact it had on the employees
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  and the importance. It's of a communication tools
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  like slack in the modern Workforce.
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  A Twitter, slack instance was down for routine maintenance on
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  Wednesday recruiting and Engineering teams took the day
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  off due to no way to chat or ship code.
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  Additionally jira a tool used by Twitter to track everything from
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  feature updates to Regulatory. Compliance.
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  Also stopped working jira. Access is been restored on
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  Thursday, but platformer confirms that slack.
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  Wasn't down for routine maintenance in a current Slack.
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  He said there is no sure thing as routine maintenance that's BS
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  and appears that Twitter hasn't paid, its lack Bill and that
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  someone at Twitter Mandalay shut off access, this move suggests
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  that musk may have turned against the communication app or
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  at least wants to see if Twitter can run without slack and the
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  expenses associated with it. Now on blind, the anonymous
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  workplace chat app, The Disappearance of critical tools
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  was met with a mixture of disbelief.
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  Frustration in Glee and for Twitter employees, slack, is
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  more than a way to message colleagues it's a store of
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  institutional memory preserved in documents.
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  The workers have had to rely on more and more.
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  Since must Purge. Thousands of employees since
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  taking over now, slack remain down at the company on Thursday.
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  And while some employees communicated over email, others
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  essentially took a second day off, there's never a good time
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  for a company to lose its primary communication
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  infrastructure, but the loss of Slack Ike is likely to be
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  particularly stressful for employees working on.
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  Musk's latest big idea. Open sourcing the algorithm that
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  ranks Tweets in the timeline in on Monday musk announced that
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  Twitter plans to open source as algorithm next week, but it
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  remains to be seen, how the loss of slack will affect this
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  project now is Twitter moves forward.
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  It will be interesting to see if the company decides to switch to
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  a different communication platform or if it will continue
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  to rely on slack, regardless of Out, come the recent outage
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  highlights, the importance of having a backup communication
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  plan in place, in case of emergencies and Twitter
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  employees were left without their primary communication
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  infrastructure on Wednesday when the slack went down for a
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  routine maintenance, of course. And there's no such thing
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  according to employees over at slack and people at Twitter, now
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  they may be kind of cost here. CEO may have been swapping out.
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  Tools from slack to another tool, used by Tesla Engineers.
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  It's called matter most. And they also use Microsoft
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  teams. Now, losing slack, all together
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  would be a significant blow to Twitter employees, because they
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  use this to gather data and code Snippets and other things in the
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  chance that they use with other workers.
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  Now, one of these workers said that slack was, where they found
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  their Solutions, 99% of the time, in the potential loss of
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  slack could also Mark, the end of an era where employee input
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  was highly valued at Twitter as employees, have reportedly felt
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  less comfortable, sharing insights, and opinions, under
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  Elon musk's leadership. And, while concerns have been
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  raised about the stability of Twitter.
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  Following recent outages, a rare endorsement of Twitter
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  stability, from Ad Agency. Wpp has some advertisers
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  reconsidering. The benefits of doing business
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  with the platform, wpp, CEO, Mark, Reed stated.
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  That Twitter seems to be a lot more stable.
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  The last few months that perhaps it was toward the end of last
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  year, which led clients to consider, how they can come back
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  to Twitter. This represents a significant
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  reversal for wpp, which urged advertisers to leave the
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  platform last November. Meanwhile, musk is testing other
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  internal All Communications tools.
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  While he works to support Twitter through Rapid updates to
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  support new features in its transition to making its
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  algorithm open source which is set to happen next week.
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  Now some employees have used email.
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  Some employees have just taken the time off but we're going to
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  see next week when the Implement these new communication tools if
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  they move the data from slack to these new communication tools or
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  into a repository. So the users Of the old slack
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  can get the data and the code in the conversations that they used
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  during their work days. Taking a quick break, so stay
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  tuned. And we'll be right back.
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  Thanks for sticking with us during a break.
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  Now, let's dive back into our discussion.
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  Now, in addition to shutting down, slack, Twitter has also,
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  recently announced a round of layoffs.
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  This left, some employees surprised and uncertain about
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  their future at the company. The social media giant has been
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  struggling with plummeting revenue and cost cutting
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  measures under the leadership of CEO.
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  Elon Musk leading to significant changes in its Workforce and
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  operations. Now, let's take a closer look at
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  what's been happening at Twitter.
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  Now, Twitter has conducted an unexpected round of layoffs.
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  Over the Can and it struggles with the plunging revenue and
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  aggressive, cost-cutting measures under Ilan.
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  And according to a report by the in formation, the company, let
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  go of at least 50 employees across various departments,
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  including engineer's, who help keep the social media Network
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  running. Now layoffs also included,
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  hardcore musk, loyalty has said Zoe Schiffer, a journalist who
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  covers the company closely for platformer.
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  She added that the layoffs included a ton of surprises.
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  For instance, she tweeted Mungo, Elaine off was Esther Crawford
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  chief executive of Twitter payments in early November.
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  Crawford tweeted when your team is pushing around the clock to
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  make deadlines. Sometimes you sleep, where you
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  work the news of this layoff, although unexpected is not
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  surprising. Giving musk's cost-cutting
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  measures since taking over the company in October last year.
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  And since then Twitter's headcount has fallen by over 70%
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  and his chief source of Revenue advertising has fallen
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  significantly. The Has seen some technical
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  glitches amid the turmoil. And I February 8 2010 users
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  across North America were unable to send messages with an error
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  message, saying they were over the daily limit.
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  For sending Tweets, Twitter may not be working as expected for
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  some of you sorry for the trouble.
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  We're aware and working to get this fixed, the company tweeted.
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  Now, musk attempted to generate Revenue in other ways, besides,
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  advertising. So far, those efforts have done
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  little to improve the company's Financial.
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  Position among those efforts have been Twitter blue, which is
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  a monthly subscription service, that includes a blue
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  verification, check mark. And that service got off to a
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  rocky. Start, when trolls used it to
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  impersonate Brands and celebrities, according to the
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  information by the middle of last month, only about 180,000
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  users had signed up for the service.
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  Many advertisers have been wary of where musk is self-described,
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  Free Speech absolutist would take the platform that didn't
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  stop. I'm waiting into various touchy
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  topics this weekend amid. These layoffs must came to the
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  defense of Scott Adams. The creator of the Dilbert,
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  after news newspapers across the country cancel the comic strip
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  for comments that called racist hateful.
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  And discriminatory now, Adam say, describe people who are
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  black as members of a hate group from which white people should
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  get away. Now musk tweeted for a very long
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  time. U.s. media was racist against
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  non-white. People now the racist against
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  whites and Asians. Same thing happened with Elite
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  colleges and high schools in America.
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  Maybe they can try not being racist.
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  Now, musk also this weekend, applauded a Saturday Night, Live
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  opening monologue by Woody Harrelson touching on covid,
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  vaccines. In the pandemic, the actor
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  talked about one of the craziest scripts, he's red He said so the
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  movie goes like this, the biggest drug cartels in the
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  world get together and buy up all the media and all the
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  politicians and force. All the people in the world to
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  stay locked in their homes and people can only come out.
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  If they take the cartels drugs and keep taking them over and
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  over, he said I threw that script away.
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  I mean who is going to believe that crazy idea being forced to
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  do drugs, I do them voluntarily all day and then musk tweeted.
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  So based Nice work. NBC SNL. and then one, Twitter
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  wrote, Go get ready for the meltdowns.
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  Maybe the media Outlets don't Rick denies that their
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