Am I a Tweep or a 'Twit'? Twitter employees are flooding Blind to say they won't be taking 'this bull no more'

• Elon Musk let half of Twitter's workforce go a week after buying the company on October 27.
• Employees who escaped the layoffs have taken to the anonymous forum Blind to share their discontent.
• One user wrote: "The funny thing is, EM himself is burning it all down."

Elon Musk's email on Thursday to Twitter employees telling them that the era of remote work was ending has sparked anger.

Some employees took to the anonymous forum Blind to share their discontent, with posts dating from the day of the email hitting their inbox saying employees must clock in at least 40 hours a week in the office. One user wrote: "The funny thing is, EM himself is burning it all down," referring to Musk.

Insider looked through posts on the workplace community app, where staff can air their grievances and seek advice. Blind users must provide their work email address, job title, and their employer when they sign up so it can "gauge the professional status" of posters, according to its website.

Rick Chen, its head of public relations, told Insider: "All employee reviews are written by current employees of their respective companies at the time of writing. We verify that someone is a current employee using their work email. (Users can't self-identify their employer.)"

More than a dozen people working for Twitter who posted their discontent were found on the app on Friday, a day following Musk's first all-hands meeting where he floated bankruptcy as a possibility.

One user posted a poll: "Frankly, I think the folks who were laid off got the better end of the deal. As a remote Tweep (Twit?), I have actively started looking. I'm not going to take this bull no more. What about you?"

It had received more than 488 votes at the time of publication. Some 90 were from people who are "actively looking for a job," while 55 voted they were "staying coz I trust Elon's vision for Twitter" and 25 votes "coz I am not optimistic about market."

A poster said: "Here's a prediction: a lot of good folks who, by definition, can easily find good jobs will leave. I'm personally not very optimistic about the future of Twitter. As someone who believes in the social impact of Twitter, that's painful to imagine."

And while others are expressing their fears for the social media app's future and searching for a new job, some believe what Musk is doing is all bluster.

"I don't think Twitter will announce bankruptcy. It's just how he operates his companies. If his companies are always on the verge of bankruptcy, his employees can be made to work to death. Manufactured crisis to keep the employees in a state of terror," one user wrote

The same user added: "If he says his companies are doing well and employees can now chill, he will have to improve the working conditions and pay them well. So he never lets it happen. He still collects his billions worth of paychecks."

Twitter employees have posted almost 1,000 reviews of the company on Blind since 2020 and it has a rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars.

Twitter didn't respond to a request for comment from Insider.