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the company's employee count. And in just 6 months of ownership musk, his cut Twitter's Workforce down by almost 90% with layoffs and firings.
Continuing on a rolling basis and is Twitter's headcount headsets lowest level and many years, blue sky and decentralized platform co-founded by former CEO of Twitter Jack. Do See his gain interest among many Twitter users and despite Dorsey being a sizable investor in musk's new Twitter is criticized, musk's operation of the company stating that he has not acted right since taking over and in the six months since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the
company's employee count. His dwindled, by almost 90% as the billionaire entrepreneur has continuously slashed, the workforce through layoffs, and firings. Some employees have Have reportedly been interrogated. About leaks before being let go, While others have simply quit or taken jobs outside of Twitter. The remaining staff members scrambled to meet musk's demands. While dealing with constant site issues is, they are fewer people
to help out with a user's. Now, as a result, Twitter is head, count is now down to its lowest level in many, many years. Currently Twitter has around 1 thousand full-time employees. According to Two sources, familiar with the matter. And musk has previously stated the Twitter. Had 1500 people remaining on staff. But it was unclear whether contract workers were included in that number. The sources said that Twitter's, headcount is closer to 1,000
employees. Particularly, when excluding any remaining contract workers who are not considered full-time staff and are technically employed by a third party musk is also ended contracts for thousands of such workers and Ask steak over Twitter has been fraught with difficulties with a particularly large layoffs and a mass resignation occurring. Shortly after the deal closed, the company's full-time.
Headcount fell below, 2,000 people earlier this year with hundreds of workers leaving in the preceding, two months now, getting closer to 1,000 workers means Twitter's head. Count is down by almost 90% from just before musk took over when the company had roughly 7,500 employees. And Those reviews are constant in musk's Twitter and internal directives for what projects and work our priorities change constantly according to former employees.
Now, remaining workers scramble to meet musk's demand, while also dealing with near constant problems that crop up on the site is there are fewer people on hand to help out and more frequently employees. That musk's Twitter are fired or let. Go piecemeal with little to no explanation after spending, we Reports of their work for review. Several have also been interrogated about leaks to the media.
One of the sources said this before, being fired in such workers have been pulled into one-on-one meetings with a member of musk's actual security team seemingly at random and
also questioned. Now Twitter's user base is increased slightly over the past six months with just over 250 million active daily users up from Out 244 million six months ago, according to data, from Epi Topia, however, downloads of the app have fallen by nearly 15% in the last three months in the early weeks of musk's takeover downloads and usage surged in musk. Has previously said, it is ambition, is to get Twitter to 1 billion users each month by next
year apt. Otiot app, Topia data shows, Twitter has almost 400 million monthly active Of users. The Mau is currently and Twitter competitors have not caught on but Blue Sky. A decentralized platform co-founded by Jack Dorsey the former CEO Twitter has gained Interest. Really the platform released its app at the end of April and is currently staggering the onboarding of users by keeping it invite only and the waitlist
exceeds 1 million people. According to Blue Sky, CEO J. Graber, I'm on the wait list for Blue Sky. What I'm going to be offering you right now is a chance to get an invite to Blue Sky when I get in if you subscribe and also, if you give a comment a good review, on Apple podcast, I could reach out to you and also let you know if there's invites available through when you know, when I get invited. So if you'd like that please hit the Subscribe or follow button.
That would be really great help out the show. And also you might get an invite to Blue Sky, which Seems like a pretty cool Twitter alternative. Now the waitlist exceeds a million people though according to Blue Sky, CEO J. Graber, and over the weekend. Dorsey took two blue sky to criticize musk and his operation of Twitter as fellow billionaire whom Dorsey. Once said, he trusted in actively work to bring into the company and he said he's not acted right since taking over Twitter.
Nonetheless Dorsey Still Remains a sizable investor in mosques new Twitter. Dorsey also said, the Twitter could not have survived as a public company and he admitted that he hired too many employees at Twitter when he ran it.
And speaking of companies with blue, check marks, Google has announced a new feature for Gmail that aims to help users verify the legitimacy of incoming emails in a recent blog post, the tech giant revealed that Gmail will Now display a blue checkmark next to a sender's name. To indicate that their identity has been verified.
The check mark is part of Al's existing brand indicators for messaging identity that be I am I feature which requires companies to authenticate the brand logo, the use as their email, Avatar to ensure that it belongs to them companies that have already adopted be, I am, I will automatically receive this check mark the new verify check. Mark is designed to help users, distinguish between legitimate emails and scams.
However, over the checkmark displays a message, that says, the sender of this email has verified I'd that they own the domain and profile image, they're using to send the email and Google notes that email, authentication can help users and security systems identify and stop spam while also allowing senders to leverage their brand, trust the addition of the more visible check mark could help users quickly.
Identify legitimate centers, especially if they're not familiar with be I am I approve logos or aren't sure whether an email is legitimate. The verified check mark builds upon Gmail's existing be IMI feature, which requires companies to identify that the brand logo the using as their email Avatar, actually belongs to them. And this helps the users know that the logos legitimate. If the email is not a phishing attempt.
And Google's addition of a more visible checkmark might also help combat phishing attempts and email scams by allowing users to quickly identify whether an email is from a legitimate sender or legitimate company.
The move is similar. Google's recent change to replace the lock icon that appears in Chrome's address bar with a tuner icon, which indicates that a website is using the safer HTTP protocol and Google's rolling out verified, check marks starting today, across both workspace accounts and personal Google accounts. So users may see blue check marks in their emails, very soon. The addition of this new feature is part of Google's ongoing efforts to improve email
security and make it easier. For users to identify legitimate. People companies in emails and building upon the be. I am I feature Google's taking a step forward like Twitter. Did it ensuring that emails or authenticated? And that users can trust the people from which the emails. They receive. Thank you so much for listening to the Elon Musk podcast today. I really do appreciate you. If you take a second and hit the Subscribe or follow button on whatever podcast platform you're
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