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In case you somehow haven’t heard, Twitter is a flaming hot mess right now and there doesn’t appear to be a fire extinguisher anywhere in the building.
Earlier this week, new CEO Elon Musk sent an email to all employees telling them they’d either have to commit to working “extremely hardcore at Twitter 2.0” or be fired. So far, Musk’s powerplay hasn’t seemed to work, as reports indicate that 75% of Twitter’s remaining 3,700 opted out.
Then, to make matters worse, whoever was left on the staff was literally locked out of the building last night because Musk apparently fired the person who was in charge of badge access. Further reports also indicated that the offices have been closed until Monday as Elon and his team are “terrified employees are going to sabotage the company.”
Staying true to itself until the bitter end, Twitter — upon hearing the news that the app could literally break any day now — celebrated its own funeral with the one thing it knows and loves best: memes.
Twitter has never failed to deliver the perfect meme for any given situation over the years and #RIPTwitter was certainly no different.
Everyone, including myself, got in on the fun.
Despite the uproar, though, Twitter remained active as of this publication on Friday morning.
Musk, quite predictably, tried to just tweet through the chaos by sharing memes, emojis, and unsubstantiated claims of Twitter usage hitting all-time highs, which ignores the fundamental fact that traffic also increases when people rubberneck to look at a car crash.
Musk, who paid a reported $44 billion for Twitter, officially acquired the company on October 27 and has been running it ever since. His first big move was to revamp Twitter Blue and give a blue checkmark to anyone who paid for one, except that project was shut down within days due to rampant impersonations. Musk has since said it will be relaunched on November 29.