The Elon Musk era of Twitter is off to a rough start.
On Friday, Musk laid off thousands of employees just a week after officially taking over the site.
Via Vox
Musk is moving on to gutting Twitter’s rank-and-file staff. He has reportedly laid off an estimated 50 percent — upward of 3,700 employees — from the company. Twitter informed its staff that layoffs would happen by 9 am PT on Friday in a company-wide email. By late Thursday evening, several employees told Recode or posted publicly on Twitter that they had already been locked out of their work email and Slack accounts without formal notice of whether they had been laid off.
These cuts are the largest in Twitter’s history
Apparently, Twitter has some security issues after laying off half their workforce because the NFL’s official AD account got hacked and began promoting a crypto scam on Saturday.
LOL someone hacked @NFL’s ad account 😂 pic.twitter.com/XjAc5Q9K1t
— Rafa (@rafacst) November 5, 2022
MAJOR WARNING: The official @NFL Twitter has been HACKED! Do not engage with anything they post! 🚨 pic.twitter.com/eZqw4Mz6y8
— MASON VERSLUIS (@MasonVersluis) November 5, 2022
The official NFL account was briefly hacked to sell crypto. Musk’s layoffs are going great pic.twitter.com/nWC00lToej
— Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) November 5, 2022
The official VERIFIED NFL account has been hacked and is running an ad for people to send 1 eth "to double their coins".. this is danger.. pic.twitter.com/tXg9xkS9k1
— André 'Noruega' Østgaard (@AndreOstgaard) November 5, 2022
Update: The NFL has deleted the tweets.