Musk sets a deadline for Twitter employees to choose to work "extremely long hours" or lose their jobs

The new head of Twitter, Elon Musk, asked employees to choose between being "very committed" by working long hours, or losing their jobs by today, according to an internal memo published by several US media.

Musk was criticized for the drastic changes he made in the company, which he bought for $44 billion last month.

He fired 50% of the 7,500-strong staff, rescinded an internal work-from-home policy and imposed long working hours, while his attempts to reform Twitter were met with chaos and delays.

"Going forward, we will have to be very committed, in order to build a super-Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world," Musk wrote in an internal memo.

"This will mean working longer hours and at a higher intensity. Only exceptional performance will count as a passing grade," he added.

Employees were asked to enter a link to confirm their commitment to the "new Twitter" by 5 p.m. Thursday New York time (10 a.m. GMT).

In the event that they do not enter the link, they will automatically lose their jobs, and they will receive three months of end-of-service compensation.

Twitter did not respond to a request for comment on the new procedure, which was sent to it by Agence France-Presse.

Since Musk's takeover of Twitter, his faltering attempts to revamp blue tick user verification with a controversial subscription service have created a slew of fake accounts and prompted major advertisers to walk away from the platform.

And on Tuesday, Elon Musk announced that the launch of the new paid subscription on Twitter has been postponed until November 29.

Before Tesla's acquisition of Twitter on October 27, the platform provided the "blue tick" feature to verify the accounts of organizations and known people for free, and on the other hand, it offered a paid subscription that included additional options, under the name "Twitter Blue".

Elon Musk unilaterally launched a fix for this subscription that also includes account verification, allowing all users to obtain this feature, regardless of their popularity on the network, for eight dollars a month.

Musk said yesterday that his overhaul of the company's "organizational structure" would take place this week.

He explained that after his "sharp rise in activity" to reorganize the company, "I think I will reduce the time I spend on Twitter and find someone else to run the company."

Musk warned Twitter employees that the company could face bankruptcy if it was not reformed quickly.

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