If you want to, like, sum up the mood inside of Twitter right now, how would you describe it?

It's pretty ugly in terms of the way that the employees are reacting to this.

Journalist Alex Cantrowitz writes the newsletter Big Technology, and he hosts the podcast with the same name. So he's

been following every twist and turn in the saga of Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter and his

very public change of heart. That includes the emotional roller coaster Twitter's 7,000 employees

have been on. They feel like they've been left out to dry by their CEO, who has now pursued

this deal to somebody who doesn't want to buy the company and has promised big changes

inside the company indicated layoffs are coming, disparaged their work, and up until this week, the company really hasn't said much in their defense.

Now, following Musk's announcement that he does not want to buy Twitter, the company has sued

to try to make the deal go through, or at least cushion this spectacular blow up with a lot of

zeros. It's really hard to know right now where this thing is going, other than to the Court of

Chancery in Delaware. Alex says there are a few possibilities. So the first is that Elon does

buy the company for a lot of money that he doesn't want to spend and then either pawns it off

somewhere else or implements his vision. There is another outcome where Elon does settle

with the company and let's say they get $5 billion from him. That's kind of a once in a lifetime

cash infusion on Twitter that will make all our jobs feel pretty stable for a long time and give them

the resources to pursue things that they probably couldn't

have in their wildest dreams given the way that Twitter had been functioning up until that point.

So it's kind of this very interesting limbo.

And then I guess the last thing is that like the court in Delaware could just rule that

this deal doesn't need to go through.

It's always a possibility.

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