Twitter owes ex-employees $500 mln in severance, lawsuit claims
Twitter Inc on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk acquired the company.
Twitter no longer has a media relations department. The company responded to a request for comment with a poop emoji.
It’s no longer enough for Twitter to go bankrupt, Musk must be liquidated
Financially and literally please. I hear there’s an area with a lot of sunflowers that need fertilizer.
The level of professionalism from this company is astounding...how in the world is anyone doing business with them? All the news from this kindergarten are not even funny anymore.
Contracts that they can't get out of?
It’s just news. And nowadays this just means it’s panic and excessive exaggeration and a pinch of populism.
Since the company is now in private hands of only one person, there is no need to paint a picture for the public. And with the efforts of making it more economical, there are of course hurdles to overcome.
But overall most decisions were reasonable. The provider change and the change to the financial model were reasonable and will eventually lead to more profits, also with a smaller team behind the platform.
Many here want to see the company fall, just because a person is bought it that’ll whom they despise. That’s just childish.
The only bad decision on musks way so far was buying twitter for simply too much. And the second worst decision was shooting a shitty car into space. Now the aliens will believe us to have no standards.
Knowing Elon, I could see it.
He's been doing this for a while now. He fired the entire PR department and set it to respond with poop emojis and every article editor that's reached out for a comment has had this as their reply.
He's a man-child. And one of the most powerful and influential people on earth.
This is far from ok. ☹️
But so it goes...
I believe it’s been ongoing for months (sense March)
Wait, is that real, or just a joke?
Real unfortunately https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1164654551/twitter-poop-emoji-elon-musk
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Like his buddy Donald, Elon seems to have a real problem paying his bills.
If we had a functioning government it would liquidate his assets and pay it out to those he refused to pay.
We do have a functioning government. I requires claims to be tried in court instead of just taking $500 million dollars away without any sort of due process.
It really is hilarious how quickly Elon went from a cool guy to being the worlds biggest loser 😂😂
he stopped being a cool guy the moment we could see him. he was the enigmatic batman/edison figure for a while, when most people only knew him by the projects he funded. then he decided he wanted to be a celebrity and as soon as we figured out who he is watching him fail miserably has become a pastime for most of us.
Meh, his base still loves him. Like Trump, this is considered a "smart move business men do" and those getting fucked "are losers for allowing it to happen".
I think his base has shifted, though. Used to be people who were interested in technology, in space exploration, in green and sustainable technology, etc.
Now a significant part of his fan base are people that decided he's their hero after he purchased Twitter and then unblocked white supremacists, Nazis, racists, white nationalists, fascists, conspiracy theorists, xenophobes, etc. and decided to harass, block, and mock middle-of-the-road journalists, national public media, and use all the far right dog whistles and megaphones.
So yeah, he still has a lot of support - but it's not the same support he had 10 years ago.
Elon and Tesla are notorious for not paying their bills.
I believe its called 'outsourcing creditors to the future', you unbeliever.
The same CEO who didn't understand the law when purchasing Twitter, also didn't understand employment law when unceremoniously dumping employees?!
There's a big surprise. Like Iago, I'm about to have a heart attack and die of "not surprise".
He's proving day after day, that no matter how much money he has, he wants nothing more than to be a terminally online shitposter.
Everyone who called him a "loser" in this thread, is 1,000% correct.
I'm really starting to think that Musk deliberately destroying Twitter is not a conspiracy theory.
I mean, with Twitter and Reddit gone, only Facebook remains.
Ah, well, there are also WhatsApp, Viber, Tik-Tok, Youtube, Telegram which need similar treatment.
Of these I casually use YT and Telegram.
The former is slowly being replaced by uploading videos to the platforms they are posted on.
The latter - well, there was a time Durov promised there would be no ads ever, there are ads everywhere now. And technically it's junk (the protocol, I mean, while the QT desktop client itself on the contrary is notoriously CPU and memory efficient for my loads of subscribed channels, groupchats etc ; it does crash sometimes, but no Matrix or XMPP client would simply survive that amount of garbage perpetually updating, so).
I use Youtube more than any other service. If you like video essays, documentaries, and other medium- and long-form content, it's the only place on earth to get it. Cable television ditched intelligent content long ago. Nebula and Curiousity are okay, but most of the content that I couldn't already get on Youtube has that shitty cable tv vibe.
The only downside with Youtube is it's huge and the algorithm is iffy. It can take a long time to build up a library of subscriptions that provide high level content every day. But now that I have that, it's basically my exclusive streaming platform. I watch 1hr of Netflix/HBO/whatever with my wife every night, and all the rest is history, cooking, science, etc. on Youtube.
I am very similar and did not realize before you said it, that I'm essentially just replacing the early days of educational TV when TLC, History Channel, Discovery, etc. were all showing educational/interesting content.
Look people are gonna say Elon was always like this but I disagree. There's a difference between being a major asshole and this kind of insanity.
We all acknowledge how being terminally online has a huge negative effect on your mental health. We all acknowledge that covid drove a lot of people crazy.
I'm pretty this happened to Elon. This isn't a sympathy thing just an observation.
I think YouTube is in an extremely good position to elevate long form content. The problem is that I have 0 faith in googles management to the point where I'm sure they'll ruin it eventually.
I disagree on telegram. It's never been more relevant. Both Russian and Ukrainians post on them real time involving the war. You could follow the failed coup on Wagner via telegram.
Conceptually, I think there's a huge need for a telegram like service that's more or less free for all parties to broadcast via channels. Obviously there are downsides, but I'd argue the ability to broadcast revolutions real time is worth it.
The problem is telegram itself isn't really trustworthy given the Russia connection
I disagree on telegram. It’s never been more relevant. Both Russian and Ukrainians post on them real time involving the war. You could follow the failed coup on Wagner via telegram.
That's because of the user base, no other reason. And you could follow not that much.
Conceptually, I think there’s a huge need for a telegram like service that’s more or less free for all parties to broadcast via channels. Obviously there are downsides, but I’d argue the ability to broadcast revolutions real time is worth it.
We are on one of such services now, FFS.
The problem is telegram itself isn’t really trustworthy given the Russia connection
You don't have to think that far to say it's not trustworthy. Just read about its protocol and how its creators are as people.
I could be wrong, but I firmly believe that the dismantling of Social Media is an indicator of the state of the economy, instead of being intentional. I believe that investors are hurting for money and are pushing platforms to turn a profit at all costs which is hurting the industry. Additionally, This appears to be happening elsewhere in other industries too but is manifesting into other symptoms. However, I think that the Tech and Entertainment industries will be the first to "Fall" (for lack of a better word) as these industries are more of a luxury rather than a necessity.
Durov also went full NFTbro with his fucking username sales. I was a massive Telegram advocate until that moment. Destroyed my trust in him. Now we move to targeted ads inserted everywhere... the end of Telegram is near :(
I haven’t used Telegram in ages. Now I think they may have reset my username. And I can’t reset it because it insists it’s taken.
Oh well. It’s just another service full of crazy.
Living in Russia, I had some idea who Durov is from his interviews and reputation and actions, before Telegram when he was in control of VKontakte too, so I never was a Telegram advocate.
Also that mtproto is a load of hacky crap is something people were writing whole articles about from the very beginning, and their arguments that their IM is "secure" were also quite typical for frauds.
But, still, at some point it was usable. EDIT: And there was hope for alternative clients pleasant to use.
What's Telegram good for? I thoguht it was more like WhatsApp with extra security? So not social media at all - just a messenger client. Does it do something else?
I thoguht it was more like WhatsApp with extra security?
About the opposite, WhatsApp is Telegram with extra security. Telegram is not secure at all. It's not even E2E for anything but "secure chats" which its desktop client doesn't have.
So not social media at all - just a messenger client.
In channels and group chats it has reactions similar to social media and used as such. Channels are like blogs - they consist of posts by the channel's authors with a link to comments. Channels and group chats can be private or public. Private ones you can't search for and can join if somebody adds you.
You don't have any kind of news feed, yes. But in general it's pretty close to social media in experience.
Creating a channel and posting something there is similar to your page in Facebook, just optional. You can add the link to it in your profile description so that people could go there after clicking at your avatar pic in a group chat, for example.
In fact it is being used like social media. Just no news feed and no friends (contacts are rather similar to that anyway).
EDIT: Describing it made me realize that I'm probably unfair to Durov. If from VK the most important things he'd remove were friends and news feeds, then he might actually be not such a bad person. It's just that I want a p2p messenger\social network with user directory, like old Skype, but completely p2p. It wouldn't become worse if it had Telegram-like channels functionality, just first things first.
That is so unfortunate to see from Twitter. Elon has made things worse.
"Yeah, we owe a lot of people a lot of money. Get in line." - Elon, probably...
I hope they get that cash
I hope they bend Elon over a barrel
First Twitter, then Reddit. Wonder when/ how Facebook is gonna destroy itself.
Never gonna happen.
This will probably settle out of court, the lawyers will get 1/2 the settlement and the thousands of employees involved will a few hundred bucks each. If that.