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Twitter's director of ad sales, Robin Wheeler, had planned to leave a week ago, but Elon Musk persuaded her to stay - she's now fired!

It hasnt even been a month since elon musk took over twitter. in the last three weeks hes laid off thousands of employees. twitter blue rolled out was delayed. he sent an ultimatum telling ex-ployees to work hard core or leave. he closed all twitter offices until monday and suspended badge ex exodus. he summoned software engineers to headquarters for a meeting and he restored former president trumps twitter account. with me now is scott galloway, professor of marketing at nyu and the author of "...

Extremely hard-core or leave. but then suddenly yesterday musk called the companys software engineers to headquarters for an urgent meeting. with me is kara swisher, "new york times" contributing writer and host of on with kara fisher podcast. kara, you know elon musk. you covered him for years. your co-host told us he wouldnt be surprised if twitter went down in the next week. are we going to see that -- what was it, the whale with the little bird. >> the fail whale. that was years ago. >> is t...

In the widely distributed emails, sent at the start of business Friday, Musk called for “anyone who actually writes software” to report to Twitter HQ.

Decide decided not to accept in invitation to work extremely hardcore. musk is left with a skeleton staff. that photo he posted at 2:00 a.m. in the middle of the night last night having called the remaining software engineers and the staff is really small and a lot of twitters work force is remote so that may not be the real group. he faces challenges in the coming days here. >> interesting that the engineers are the focus here, not so much those who are in charge of, say, the guardrails, editor...

Little blue bird keep flying if they dont have people to operate the company? >> thats the million dollar -- or $44 billion question, ana. >> literally. >> literally. can twitter survive elon musk and it looks like, you know, they are in some trouble. yesterday a mass exodus at the company occurred after elon musks 5:00 p.m. deadline for employees. remember, he had asked them either work hard core or leave the company. scores of employees, hundreds of employees seemed to resign yesterday and now...

Here. people tried to overturn the peaceful transfer of power, and the question is, what will the accountability be? a lot of previous prosecutions for donald trump for actions he did, its the lower ranking people who end up being the fall guy. this is one of many questions, and this is a very serious issue for our country. im not trying to make light of it, but taking these cheap, partisan shots, that kind of hackr h hackery that demonizes the justice at the prdepartment, tht help. it hurts. it...

'There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack,' Musk wrote in the memo

People that worked for twitter, google or whatever, big heads about them. i see this as if you dont fit there anymore, find a job that will fit you better and i hope the people that join twitter will be committed to the new twitter, which is committed to actual free speech and the lack of censorship and it will be a happy place where people are grateful for their job to have food to buy their own lunch and twitter is grateful for people that know how to code and whatever word that elon just trea...

Chaotic it is inside there. yesterday they were told offices are closed, now elon is summoning software engineers to the tenth floor for a meeting. >> my goodness, it just seems like hes making this all up as he goes and the company continues to implode. what will the death of twitter mean? what implications will that have if that happens? >> twitter is the digital town square, world leaders use, the president of the united states is on there, the pentagon is on there, dissidents in foreign coun...