After Twitter laid off half its staff following Elon Musk’s $44 billion (approx. Rs. 3,61,290 crore)acquisition, the company is now reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs and asking them to return, as per report.
Some of those who are being ask to return were laid off by mistake.
Others were let go before management realize that their work and experience may be necessary to build the new features Musk envisions, the report said citing people familiar with the moves.
Twitter recently laid off 50% of its employees, including employees on the trust and safety team, the company’s head of safety and integrity Yoel Roth said in a tweet earlier this week.
Tweets by staff of the social media company said teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and machine learning ethics were among those gutted, as were some product and engineering teams.
Twitter update its app in Apple’s App Store to begin charging $8 (approx. Rs. 660) for sought-after blue check verification marks, in Eon Musk’s first major revision of the social media platform.
As, Twitter was sue over Elon Musk’s plan to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at the social-media platform, half of its workforce which workers say the company is doing without enough notice in violation of federal and California law.
The lawsuit aim to ask the court to issue an order requiring Twitter to obey the WARN Act, and restricting the company from soliciting employees to sign documents that could give up their right to participate in litigation.
Twitter Blue Price Rises to $7.99, Now Gives Subscribers a Blue Tick for Verification and Fewer Ads
Twitter has push out an update for its iOS app which introduces the new revamp Twitter Blue subscription that new owner and CEO Elon Musk has promoting through his own tweets.
The Twitter Blue subscribers will automatically get a blue checkmark badge on their profiles, which use to be given only to the verified accounts of corporates, celebrities, and public figures.
And now, the “blue tick” will be something Twitter users have to pay for.
The price of Twitter Blue has risen to $7.99 per month in the US from $4.99, and Elon Musk has indicate that this will be scale to purchasing power in other countries.
According to the iOS app update’s release notes, the new ‘Twitter Blue with verification’ will first be available in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
Twitter Blue subscribers will see half as many ads, and the ones they do see will purportedly be twice as relevant to each user.
The release notes also indicate that subscribers will be able to post longer videos and their content will be rank higher in search results as well as reply threads and lists of mentions.
The ability to read articles on participating sites ad-free has already drop as a Twitter Blue feature despite the price increase.
Elon Musk has also suggest that the ability to edit tweets will soon be available to everyone, as oppose to only Twitter Blue subscribers.
And the Twitter app update is now visible in the App Store, it appears as though these features might not be available to everyone yet.
An account claiming to be that of a Twitter “early stage products” employee, though notably lacking a verification badge, tweet that the new Blue subscription plan isn’t live yet, as tests are ongoing as changes are being push live in a rush to get it roll out.
Others have tweet screenshots of the Twitter Blue sign-up page.
It also isn’t clear yet when or whether the plan will roll out in other countries and users on other platforms will be able to sign up.
Twitter has not yet indicate what will happen to current Twitter Blue subscribers.
It is however likely that everyone who currently has a verification badge but does not choose to pay the subscription fee will lose it.
While the company characterises current and potential subscribers as “supporting Twitter in the battle against the bots”, this change will tip the balance of exposure on the platform in favour of those willing to pay for it and could also potentially make it harder to find authoritative sources of information.
The change to Twitter Blue is one of many things Musk has tweeted about.
