Elon Musk
sent out an SOS to Twitter engineers after nearly 1,200 staff members resigned
on Friday in response to the billionaire’s ultimatum about a hardcore work
culture. Two days ago, Musk issued a message to employees saying, “Going
forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly
competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore.”

“This will
mean long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute
a passing grade,” Musk said in the message, adding, “Whatever decision you
make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful.”

Before the
exodus from Twitter, Musk had already fired nearly half of the company’s
workforce.

Musk has
also said Twitter will become much more engineering-driven, adding those
writing great code would constitute the majority of the team.

Now, Elon
Musk has asked Twitter employees to report at the 10th floor,
calling on engineers to fly from San Francisco and be at the Twitter office in
person.

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He,
however, added that those who can’t get to the Bay Area physically will be
excused from attending, a Bloomberg report said.

Nearly 1,200
Twitter employees resigned creating confusion over which people will continue
to have access over computer property. Musk has come under increasing fire over
the radical changes he is making at the social media company.

Twitter has
announced a temporary closure of all its offices with immediate effect, BBC reported
citing a company statement issued to employees. “Please continue to comply with
company policy by refraining from discussing confidential company information
on social media, with the press or elsewhere,” the note said.

Employee
unions in the United Kingdom and elsewhere have raised an alarm over the
condition of workers in the company. Meanwhile, Musk, resorted to Twitter on Saturday
asking: “What should Twitter do next?” Musk’s tweet drew a range of responses
from serious to not-so-serious ones. There were also those that were reminiscent
of the #RIPTwitter trend, where users said, “Not implode would be good.”