Remember how Twitter has stopped paying rent on a bunch of its offices? And Musk just cashed $3.5B in Tesla stock? They probably couldn't pay the rent without people going unpaid.
Not paying your rent is one thing, but not paying employees results in immediate, we-gonna-fuck-you-in-the-ass attention from governments around the world. My state treats non-payment of wages as a criminal offense by the officers of the company.
True, however high profile account contents matter to both advertisers and other twitter uses.
>Stephen Fry, who last week tweeted an image of Scrabble letters spelling out ‘goodbye’, and abandoned his 12.5 million followers!
Stephen Fry quits Twitter following Elon Musk’s takeover : https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/tv/stephen-fry-quits-twitter-...
>(Update December 19, 2022, 8:40 AM IST):
Twitter has deleted the tweets announcing the policy that prohibited people from posting handles and links to other social networks.
The company has also silently removed the policy page that detailed these rules.
Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Elon Musk took over : https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/03/1062752/twitter-...
[1 hour ago - 4 comments] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34046074
This does Not bode well;
links to Mastodon, including your Mastodon account in your profile or even the mere mention of Mastodon.
Is this action for the actual bleed? - Or paranoia at the projected losses?