Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, November 4th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.

The layoffs have begun at Twitter. And while Twitter might be shutting down its sub-stack competitor

Substack has moved into Twitter's turf by launching a sort of discussion

platform. Dolly APIs are now available for you to use, what it's like to use Netflix's new ad

supported tier, and of course the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you

miss today in the world of tech.

The Twitter layoffs are happening right now, unfortunately. They began overnight, quoting the

verge. Employees will receive an email by 9 a.m. P.S.T. on November 4th confirming whether they

have been laid off or not, according to the internal memo, which also states that employee

badge access to Twitter's offices will be shut off temporarily.

We acknowledge this is an incredibly challenging experience to go through whether or not you are

impacted.

The memo reads, thank you for continuing to adhere to Twitter policies that prohibit you from discussing

confidential company information on social media with the press or elsewhere, end quote.

After employees received the memo confirming layoffs would begin, many began quickly trying to

unlink their Twitter accounts from their work email addresses, a company mandated policy that

also requires physical keys for two-factor authentication.

In Twitter's Slack and group chats, employees complained about the lack of internal communication

from Musk and Twitter's other leaders over the past week.

I truly wish you all well for your sake, for the sake of your teams, and for the sake of the many

people and communities this product serves, one data scientist wrote in a slack message

addressed to leadership that was seen by the

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