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After Twitter told employees it would beryllium closing its offices until Monday, caller proprietor and CEO Elon Musk has called engineering unit into the San Francisco office office, according to interior emails obtained by CNBC.
Late connected Thursday, Twitter sent retired a companywide email saying its offices would beryllium closed from Friday until Monday, and badge entree would chopped disconnected during that impermanent closure.
Then, successful a brace of wide distributed emails sent astatine the commencement of concern connected Friday, Musk called for "anyone who really writes software," to study to Twitter's office by Friday afternoon. First, though, helium asked them to nonstop him a high-level study of the champion codification that they person worked connected successful the past six months.
After the archetypal telephone for engineers to travel into the office, helium besides sent a followup encouraging radical to alert to San Francisco to contiguous successful person. He said, successful 1 of his emails, helium would beryllium moving precocious into the nighttime astatine the company's office bureau Friday, and backmost again connected Saturday morning.
Musk said the constituent of sharing each this code, and gathering with him successful the office, would beryllium to bash "short, method interviews" that would assistance him "better recognize the Twitter tech stack."
Musk said those authorized to enactment remotely could petition to talk with him by video. But quixotically helium besides said, "Only those who cannot get to Twitter HQ oregon person a household exigency are excused."
The mixed messages connected returning to the bureau travel aft a question of Twitter employees resigned connected Thursday.
Their caller "Chief Twit," arsenic Musk humorously calls himself, had issued an ultimatum a time earlier telling them they would request to perpetrate to his imaginativeness for Twitter 2.0, and hold to work "long hours astatine precocious intensity."
Three employees who resigned connected Thursday told CNBC they inactive had entree to immoderate interior systems astatine Twitter connected Friday morning.
One believed that truthful galore radical from Twitter's quality resources and IT teams had resigned oregon been laid disconnected that it whitethorn instrumentality a agelong clip for the institution to fig retired whose entree to email, Slack and different systems should beryllium switched off.
These radical asked to stay un-named citing fearfulness of nonrecreational repercussions.
