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More Twitter workers flee after Musk's 'hardcore' ultimatum

Twitter headquarters in San Francisco October 28, 2022. [AP Photo]

Twitter continued to bleed engineers and other workers on Thursday after new owner Elon Musk gave them a choice to pledge to "hardcore" work or resign with severance pay.

Some took to Twitter to announce they were signing off after Musk's deadline to make the pledge. A number of employees took to a private forum outside of the company's messaging board to discuss their planned departure, asking questions about how it might jeopardize their U.S. visas or if they would get the promised severance pay, according to an employee fired earlier this week who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

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