Twitter employees sleep in the office to meet Elon Musk’s demands

Elon Musk issued an ultimatum Twitter staff: either create a payment system with account verification before November 7, or they will be fired. A lot of they sleep in the officeso as not to waste time. Eat, sleep and work.

bad times for Twitter staff, after the purchase of the company by Elon Musk. A significant part of them were fired, and those who remained are under great pressure.

FROM twitter debt short term 1 billion dollars According to The Verge, Musk has to get money even from under the rocks. But it happened to the company at the wrong time, due to the economic crisis caused by rising energy prices and inflation, which led to a reduction in consumption, and with it Advertising activity.

Twitter workers sleep in the office

Elon Musk outlined five big changes for Twitter, and most of them are related to the introduction paid subscriptions.

He randomly threw a lot of random ideas into the air, and it is not clear which ones he will apply. was talking about get paid for tweets with videoson send direct messages, and more. But the final decision price rising twitter blue from the current $4.95 to $20 and include various things. Among them account verification. Good take $8 a month just for this.

account verification It’s that blue label that many important characters’ accounts have to make sure they’re really them.

Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to its Twitter employees: either submit payment verification system until November 7 or they will be fired. They only have one week to finish the job.

This is very little time for a system that requires a layer of security to prevent fraud, payment systems, integration into the current subscription, etc. That’s why many Twitter employees sleep in the officeIn order not to waste time:

When your team is working around the clock to meet deadlines, sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD

— Esther Crawford (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022

It’s hard to know to what extent a tweet is a judgmental or “pride” tweet, as some Twitter staff In the comments, they explain that they are willing to work so hard to help the company through difficult times.

But the reality is that even if they finish their work on time and Twitter charges 8 euros per month to 400,000 users who has their Verified accountit’s simple $38.4 million per yearnot enough to cover the $1,000 million in short-term debt he currently has.

And even if you impose other subscriptions, it is unlikely that users will subscribe in droves. Most of the income should come from advertisingThat’s why the first tweet Musk sent after buying Twitter was to advertisers. But if the social network radicalizes, advertisers will scatter.

Requirements Elon Muskbass threat of dismissalforce Twitter employees will sleep in the officeand just focus on your work. The social network has fallen on hard times, and Musk is not going to make it easy.