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Welcome back to the Elon Musk 
podcast. 

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This episode will be discussing 
the latest news on Elon musk's 

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takeover of Twitter. 
And the continuous slashing of 

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the company's employee count. 
And in just 6 months of 

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ownership musk, his cut 
Twitter's Workforce down by 

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almost 90% with layoffs and 
firings. 

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Continuing on a rolling basis 
and is Twitter's headcount 

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headsets lowest level and many 
years, blue sky and 

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decentralized platform 
co-founded by former CEO of 

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Twitter Jack. 
Do See his gain interest among 

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many Twitter users and despite 
Dorsey being a sizable investor 

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in musk's new Twitter is 
criticized, musk's operation of 

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the company stating that he has 
not acted right since taking 

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over and in the six months since
Elon Musk took over Twitter, the

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company's employee count. 
His dwindled, by almost 90% as 

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the billionaire entrepreneur has
continuously slashed, the 

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workforce through layoffs, and 
firings. 

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Some employees have Have 
reportedly been interrogated. 

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About leaks before being let go,
While others have simply quit or

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taken jobs outside of Twitter. 
The remaining staff members 

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scrambled to meet musk's 
demands. 

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While dealing with constant site
issues is, they are fewer people

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to help out with a user's. 
Now, as a result, Twitter is 

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head, count is now down to its 
lowest level in many, many 

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years. 
Currently Twitter has around 1 

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thousand full-time employees. 
According to Two sources, 

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familiar with the matter. 
And musk has previously stated 

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the Twitter. 
Had 1500 people remaining on 

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staff. 
But it was unclear whether 

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contract workers were included 
in that number. 

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The sources said that Twitter's,
headcount is closer to 1,000 

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employees. 
Particularly, when excluding any

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remaining contract workers who 
are not considered full-time 

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staff and are technically 
employed by a third party musk 

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is also ended contracts for 
thousands of such workers and 

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Ask steak over Twitter has been 
fraught with difficulties with a

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particularly large layoffs and a
mass resignation occurring. 

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Shortly after the deal closed, 
the company's full-time. 

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Headcount fell below, 2,000 
people earlier this year with 

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hundreds of workers leaving in 
the preceding, two months now, 

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getting closer to 1,000 workers 
means Twitter's head. 

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Count is down by almost 90% from
just before musk took over when 

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the company had roughly 7,500 
employees. 

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And Those reviews are constant 
in musk's Twitter and internal 

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directives for what projects and
work our priorities change 

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constantly according to former 
employees. 

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Now, remaining workers scramble 
to meet musk's demand, while 

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also dealing with near constant 
problems that crop up on the 

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site is there are fewer people 
on hand to help out and more 

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frequently employees. 
That musk's Twitter are fired or

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let. 
Go piecemeal with little to no 

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explanation after spending, we 
Reports of their work for 

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review. 
Several have also been 

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interrogated about leaks to the 
media. 

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One of the sources said this 
before, being fired in such 

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workers have been pulled into 
one-on-one meetings with a 

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member of musk's actual security
team seemingly at random and 

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also questioned. 
Now Twitter's user base is 

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increased slightly over the past
six months with just over 250 

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million active daily users up 
from Out 244 million six months 

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ago, according to data, from Epi
Topia, however, downloads of the

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app have fallen by nearly 15% in
the last three months in the 

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early weeks of musk's takeover 
downloads and usage surged in 

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musk. 
Has previously said, it is 

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ambition, is to get Twitter to 1
billion users each month by next

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year apt. 
Otiot app, Topia data shows, 

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Twitter has almost 400 million 
monthly active Of users. 

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The Mau is currently and Twitter
competitors have not caught on 

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but Blue Sky. 
A decentralized platform 

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co-founded by Jack Dorsey the 
former CEO Twitter has gained 

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Interest. 
Really the platform released its

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app at the end of April and is 
currently staggering the 

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onboarding of users by keeping 
it invite only and the waitlist 

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exceeds 1 million people. 
According to Blue Sky, CEO J. 

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Graber, I'm on the wait list for
Blue Sky. 

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What I'm going to be offering 
you right now is a chance to get

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an invite to Blue Sky when I get
in if you subscribe and also, if

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you give a comment a good 
review, on Apple podcast, I 

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could reach out to you and also 
let you know if there's invites 

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available through when you know,
when I get invited. 

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So if you'd like that please hit
the Subscribe or follow button. 

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That would be really great help 
out the show. 

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And also you might get an invite
to Blue Sky, which Seems like a 

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pretty cool Twitter alternative.
Now the waitlist exceeds a 

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million people though according 
to Blue Sky, CEO J. 

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Graber, and over the weekend. 
Dorsey took two blue sky to 

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criticize musk and his operation
of Twitter as fellow billionaire

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whom Dorsey. 
Once said, he trusted in 

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actively work to bring into the 
company and he said he's not 

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acted right since taking over 
Twitter. 

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Nonetheless Dorsey Still Remains
a sizable investor in mosques 

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new Twitter. 
Dorsey also said, the Twitter 

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could not have survived as a 
public company and he admitted 

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that he hired too many employees
at Twitter when he ran it. 

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And speaking of companies with 
blue, check marks, Google has 

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announced a new feature for 
Gmail that aims to help users 

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verify the legitimacy of 
incoming emails in a recent blog

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post, the tech giant revealed 
that Gmail will Now display a 

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blue checkmark next to a 
sender's name. 

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To indicate that their identity 
has been verified. 

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The check mark is part of Al's 
existing brand indicators for 

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messaging identity that be I am 
I feature which requires 

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companies to authenticate the 
brand logo, the use as their 

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email, Avatar to ensure that it 
belongs to them companies that 

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have already adopted be, I am, I
will automatically receive this 

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check mark the new verify check.
Mark is designed to help users, 

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distinguish between legitimate 
emails and scams. 

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However, over the checkmark 
displays a message, that says, 

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the sender of this email has 
verified I'd that they own the 

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domain and profile image, 
they're using to send the email 

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and Google notes that email, 
authentication can help users 

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and security systems identify 
and stop spam while also 

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allowing senders to leverage 
their brand, trust the addition 

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of the more visible check mark 
could help users quickly. 

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Identify legitimate centers, 
especially if they're not 

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familiar with be I am I approve 
logos or aren't sure whether an 

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email is legitimate. 
The verified check mark builds 

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upon Gmail's existing be IMI 
feature, which requires 

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companies to identify that the 
brand logo the using as their 

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email Avatar, actually belongs 
to them. 

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And this helps the users know 
that the logos legitimate. 

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If the email is not a phishing 
attempt. 

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And Google's addition of a more 
visible checkmark might also 

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help combat phishing attempts 
and email scams by allowing 

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users to quickly identify 
whether an email is from a 

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legitimate sender or legitimate 
company. 

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The move is similar. 
Google's recent change to 

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replace the lock icon that 
appears in Chrome's address bar 

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with a tuner icon, which 
indicates that a website is 

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using the safer HTTP protocol 
and Google's rolling out 

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verified, check marks starting 
today, across both workspace 

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accounts and personal Google 
accounts. 

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So users may see blue check 
marks in their emails, very 

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soon. 
The addition of this new feature

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is part of Google's ongoing 
efforts to improve email 

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security and make it easier. 
For users to identify 

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legitimate. 
People companies in emails and 

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building upon the be. 
I am I feature Google's taking a

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step forward like Twitter. 
Did it ensuring that emails or 

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authenticated? 
And that users can trust the 

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people from which the emails. 
They receive. 

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