Is this really the end of Twitter?

The hashtag «RIPTwitter» is trending and lots of the site's users are scrambling to download their data. Twitter's new boss Elon Musk, never one to ignore a trend, tweeted a meme of a gravestone with the Twitter logo on it. Staff have been leaving in their droves - half the workforce was laid off by Mr Musk one week after he completed his purchase of the platform, and many more are choosing to leave since he sent an email demanding «hardcore» working conditions and long hours from his remaining employees.

Without servers, there is no Twitter

Servers - powerful computers - are like the physical bodies of these platforms. These are effectively warehouses full of computer servers which are central to the operations of online businesses. The world runs on servers.

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Twitter has told employees that the company's office buildings will be temporarily closed, with immediate effect.

Twitter has told employees that the company's office buildings will be temporarily closed, with immediate effect Twitter has told employees that the company's office buildings will be temporarily closed, with immediate effect. In a message seen by the BBC, workers were told that the offices would reopen on Monday 21 November. The announcement comes amid reports that large numbers of staff were quitting after new owner Elon Musk called on them to sign up for «long hours at high intensity» or leave. «We will not let these makings of a digital P&O pass unchecked, » said Mike Clancy, general secretary of Prospect, referring to the ferry operator's decision to sack staff and replace them with agency workers earlier this year There are signs that large numbers of workers have resigned because they have not accepted Mr. « Musk's new terms. » «They claimed everyone on their team had been sacked. "The manager of that team, his manager was terminated. And then that mana...

New FTX boss condemns crypto exchange's failure

Mr Ray , who replaced Sam Bankman-Fried , also criticised a «complete absence of trustworthy financial information» . Meanwhile , Mr Bankman-Fried has told the Vox news website that he regretted filing for bankruptcy . 'Erratic and misleading' Mr Ray said what he had found since taking over was «unprecedented» in his 40-year career , which includes overseeing the bankruptcy of US energy giant Enron . In documents filed for the first day of bankruptcy proceedings at the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware , Mr Ray also criticised what he said were «erratic and misleading» public statements by his predecessor .

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