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Elon Musk’s ongoing battle with the media since his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last year seems to have taken a turn for the worse.
The Twitter owner shared on Sunday morning that he will be receiving an auto-reply of a somewhat undignified poop emoji to all press inquiries sent to Twitter via his platform. .
entrepreneur decided to test this theory by sending a message to Twitter asking if Musk was serious or capricious.
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Turns out Musk wasn’t bluffing.
wonderful.
Musk also doesn’t like having a PR department. In 2020, he laid off Tesla’s entire public relations department, which also serves as CEO, making it impossible for him to contact the electric car company, and allowing journalists to disseminate information presented at shareholder meetings and town hall meetings. I had to rush.
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After Musk took over Twitter, the communications team Big hit with layoffs and almost completely dissolved. High-level team members like Brian Poliakoff (global head of corporate and customer communications) and Julie Steele (director and head of global internal communications) were dismissed last fall.
Since then, people who have reached out to Twitter via the press@Twitter.com email address have not received a response.
Musk’s latest poop emoji antics came after a public feud with former employee Haraldur “Halli” Þorleifsson. He claimed Twitter’s internal computer could not be confirmed with Twitter’s human resources department as to whether he was fired after being locked out of the system.
dear @elonmusk
Nine days ago, access to my work computer was cut off along with about 200 Twitter employees.
But your HR manager can’t verify if I’m an employee. you haven’t replied to my email
Maybe if enough people retweet, will they answer me here?
— Hari (@iamharaldur) March 6, 2023
Twitter’s latest layoffs have cut an estimated 200 employees (about 10% of the remaining workforce), bringing the company down to less than 2,000 employees.