The hashtags #RIPTwitter and #GoodbyeTwitter trended on Twitter following reports of mass resignations from the platform's employees. These tweets spread widely as the deadline set by the platform's owner, American billionaire Elon Musk, approached on Thursday, November 17, at 5 PM Eastern Time. Employees had to decide whether they would continue working under Musk's updated vision for the site, which he referred to as "Twitter 2.0."
As the deadline passed, hundreds of employees chose to leave the company, which has faced critical challenges since Musk, 51, took control in late October. A former employee tweeted, “I thought my soul had already been crushed completely after the last two weeks. I was very wrong. Today was brutal... There will be no better culture than the one we had. We know it. Every other tech company knows it. #LoveWhereYouWorked.”
It is noteworthy that Twitter closed all its offices and barred employee access until the following Monday at Musk's directive, after hundreds of employees refused to continue working under Musk's new vision for the social platform.
