Twitter boss Elon Musk (51) at an event in Turkey

DLNews Staff:

ELON MUSK CLOSED OFFICES.

Employees quit after the ultimatum.

Is this the next level of escalation in the Twitter Trouble?

New boss Elon Musk (51) is said to have closed the shop in the truest sense of the word. According to consistent media reports, the tech multinational has informed its remaining employees that the offices are closed immediately. The measure should apply until November 21.

The background for this step? Completely unknown!

According to the BBC, mail from the short message service is available. It says: "Thank you for your flexibility. And please be so kind as to remember the company policy that confidential information should not be discussed on social media or with the press."

Musk seems calm about the excitement.

A request that apparently backfired. The hashtags #RIPTwitter, #TwitterDown, #GoodByeTwitter, #LoveWhereYouWorked, and #Elon are trending on Twitter early Friday morning. The latter is apparently calm about the excitement: He wrote, "And ... We just hit a new all-time high in Twitter usage."

The Twitter headquarters are said to have been illuminated with this treadmill.

The portal is currently flooded with memes (mostly funny pictures or videos online) that mock the 51-year-old. For example, a video with the hashtag #TwitterTakeover is said to show how the company's headquarters in San Francisco are illuminated with an LED moving strip. Among other things, it reads: Elon Musk is a lawless oligarch and kisses dictators' butts.

Crazy: According to an employee, Elon Musk even locked himself out due to his office-to-measure.

Pure chaos since the Musk takeover

Twitter has been in chaos since Musk's $44 billion takeover. First, half of the 7,500-strong workforce was laid off. Then, Musk shocked the remaining employees this week with a tough announcement: Either "extremely hardcore" bucking - or departure with a severance payment of three months' salary.

According to industry insiders, many Twitter employees are choosing option two, including leaders of the Blue Verified project, which is vital to Musk. This is the strategy of making money with the blue verified ticks. According to other rumors, Elon Musk could ask all users to pay in the future.

The critical infrastructure is also said to have been diligently terminated. In total, there is talk of hundreds of abdications. In a Reuters poll of 180 employees, 42 percent said they wanted to leave the company.