Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, November 18th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, I'm here with you all as we wait for the end of Twitter together, unless it doesn't die, in which case, I don't know.

Masa San is actually personally in-hoc to the Vision Fund now that all of their investments have gone

pear shaped. A weird end of an era for Facebook. It's not

about status updates anymore. And of course the weekend long race

suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Quick note there might be Tech.

Quick note, there might be a few curses again in today's episode. Remember when I said I'd do a percentage rating now and again in terms of how alive I felt like

Twitter as a platform was. I guess when I imagined doing that I was imagining

a slow draining of users, a slow death for Twitter as it were.

But hey, you know, heart attacks can happen too.

Twitter as I write these words is functioning, but I'll be honest with you a lot of people

last night myself included thought it would maybe be 50-50 if it would even be

here this morning that was because yesterday hundreds of Twitter employees

posted farewell messages and salute emojies in Slack and tweets,

announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's so-called Hardcore Altamatum,

quoting Alex Heath in The Verge.

Twitter had roughly 2,900 remaining employees before the deadline Thursday thanks to

Musk unceremoniously laying off about half of the 7,500 person workforce when he

took over and the resignations that followed. Remaining and departing Twitter employees told the verge that given the scale of the resignations

this week, they expect the platform to start breaking soon.

One said that they've watched legendary engineers and others they look up to leave one by one.

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