On Friday, Twitter’s new chief executive Elon Musk sent an email to all employees of the social media behemoth thanking them for working long hours since he took over on Oct. 28.
Musk said he had stayed at Twitter’s headquarters office in San Francisco late Thursday night as well. He then invited employees who have returned to the San Francisco office after getting over last week’s 50% reduction in workforce, to come visit with him.
Overnight, Twitter appeared to pause its $7.99 per month Twitter Blue subscription service, which allowed users of the platform to pay to retain a blue verified-subscriber check mark. Many users used the new subscriber badge to impersonate brands and famous people who acquired a blue check mark via the company’s original verification system.
Among the brands that were impersonated were pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, video game multinational Nintendo, and Musk’s electric vehicle company, Tesla.
Two current Twitter employees told CNBC that they were fielding calls from colleagues and clients about all the changes to the platform.
