Twitter employees were urged to print copies of the written code

Twitter employees, amid fears of possible mass layoffs, were instructed to print out copies of the code they had recently written. This will help, if necessary, to prove their relevance as specialists, reported in the New York Times, citing sources.

It is noted that printouts of copies of the codes can be a possible proof of the work of programmers.

At the same time, a number of employees said that they do not receive notifications from the company, which is why people are forced to rely on news reports to understand what is happening.

According to sources, Twitter also held a “code freeze” to prevent possible changes to the application.

Earlier, The Washington Post reported that Elon Musk wanted to reduce the company’s staff from the current 7.5 thousand to just over 2 thousand employees. Later, according to Bloomberg, the billionaire at a meeting with Twitter employees denied the information about the upcoming cuts after the purchase of the company.

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk became head of Twitter on October 27, after which he began large-scale purges in the company’s management.

The intention of the billionaire to acquire Twitter became known on April 25. However, after signing the deal, Musk accused the leadership of the social network of hiding real information about the number of bots and spam on the platform. The entrepreneur officially announced that he wants to terminate the deal.

The company did not positively evaluate such a step of the billionaire. Elon Musk’s refusal to buy Twitter hit the reputation of the IT giant, and the company’s shares after that collapsed by 6.5 percent. On July 13, Twitter management filed a lawsuit against the billionaire to force him to complete the deal. The businessman’s legal team filed a confidential counterclaim in a Delaware court. At the end of July, Elon Musk filed a counterclaim against Twitter.

At the end of August, Elon Musk decided to terminate the agreement with Twitter on the merger of a number of additional grounds, different from those that were set out in early July of this year. However, later the billionaire was ordered to complete the deal to acquire the social network.

On October 5, it became known that Twitter accepted the offer of American billionaire Elon Musk to acquire the company for $44 billion. After Musk’s proposal, Twitter’s stock price rose.