Update:
In a shocking turn of events, many Twitter employees have resigned leaving Elon red faced and with a very big crisis on his hand and to deal with this he has closed the Twitter offices. #riptwitter is trending on Twitter but let’s hope this is not the end.
One employee used Game of Thrones referencee to call it quits:
“I’m not pressing the button,” one departing employee posted in Slack. “My watch ends with Twitter 1.0. I do not wish to be part of Twitter 2.0.”
As I write this article Twitter is buzzing over a email send by Chief Twit aka Elon Musk, and I’m puzzled why Twitter 2.0 is getting hate already.
The mail content which I saw on Twitter simply read get ready to commit for long hours, and if you can’t commit be prepared to leave and after spending 44 Billion I’m sure asking for a commitment is not such a big deal.
The second part what got people annoyed was that Twitter 2.0 would be written solely by engineers, and unless something bad happens we need to give him the benefit of the doubt that he has a plan going ahead.
These are some tweets showing how angry people already are:
Twitter 2.0 will be powerviolence https://t.co/SYV75CAfg9
— Paul Blest (@pblest) November 16, 2022
twitter 2.0 pic.twitter.com/6VYcJGTtrK
— PlausibleDeniability (@occupyICENW) November 16, 2022
Someone saw the humor and tweeted this:
https://twitter.com/jayaltons/status/1592866013984755712
Finally I did spot an supportive Tweet:
I don’t get all the hate for the Twitter 2.0 email, I’ve always done my best when working 80 hours a week for a man child who has no clear goals and screams “MORE HARDCORE” whenever a clarifying question is asked. That’s when I really thrive.
— James Graham (@jamzhasthoughts) November 16, 2022
Few things I personally expect may happen with Twitter 2.0
- End of spam bots
- Improved Blue Badge
- A dedicated video ad player playing high cpm video ads
- Increased traffic to websites from Twitter
Lastly we need to cut him some slack, and attacking his every move doesn’t make any sense so let’s hope Twitter 2.0 turns out well.
This article will be updated at a later date when I find more about Twitter 2.0