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Jake Johnson

SHOCKING: Twitter verges on collapse amid revolt - What They Never Told You

Twitter owner Elon Musk is seen with a Twitter logo in photo illustration. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Twitter workers reportedly quit by the hundreds Thursday after refusing to agree to billionaire CEO Elon Musk's demand that they work longer hours as part of his self-described "extremely hardcore" plan to overhaul the social media platform.

As a result, the company that Musk purchased for $44 billion just weeks ago is in chaos as the mass exodus of employees and the billionaire's earlier decision to fire roughly half of Twitter's workforce are threatening basic, day-to-day operations at the platform used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

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