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Musk told Twitter employees that anyone who had not clicked on a
link confirming "you want to be part of the new Twitter" by
Thursday evening New York time would be considered to have quit.
"Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make
Twitter successful," the message said.
A copy of the message, which was reported by The Washington
Post, was reviewed by Reuters. A person who had received the
message at Twitter confirmed its content.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment
from Reuters.
"Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed
in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be
extremely hardcore," the message from Musk said. "This will mean
long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will
constitute a passing grade."
Musk said Twitter would be "much more engineering-driven" under
his leadership, adding that "those writing great code will
constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway."
Twitter laid off half of its workforce earlier this month
shortly after Musk took control of the social media company.
Musk has criticized Twitter's spending and work culture and said
the company needs steep cost cuts and a reboot of its services.
Some Twitter employees who had criticized Musk publicly tweeted
earlier that they had been let go.
(Reporting Hyunjoo Jin and Fanny Potkin, writing by Kevin
Krolicki, editing by Louise Heavens)
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