Former Twitter employees who Elon Musk let go after buying the company sure seem to think they were the difference between a profitable company and bankruptcy, and that contributed to #RIPTwitter trending (on Twitter, ironically enough). If we were to listen to the alarms being sounded by some of the usual panic-mongers, The End Is Near.
And yet, Twitter is still up and running:
Lmao… that's *not* exactly how it went down pic.twitter.com/bSSErFP8l8
— 🍹 Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock (@kimmie_c_) November 18, 2022
wait sorry is everyone freaking out that Twitter is going to vanish because of blind quotes from disgruntled employees in a WaPo article
— Charles Fain Lehman (@CharlesFLehman) November 18, 2022
Checking on 12 hours later, twitter still here some how
— Charles Fain Lehman (@CharlesFLehman) November 18, 2022
Piers Morgan offered this suggestion for those making high drama about what’s happening with Twitter under Musk’s ownership:
Could all the people currently whining about ‘the death of Twitter’ since @elonmusk bought it… just leave Twitter?
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 18, 2022
Musk has seconded the motion:
Recommended
Seriously
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
And yet for some reason we don’t think those Twitter users will take that excellent advice.
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