At least
two bodyguards
accompany Elon Musk through Twitter headquarters and
even follow him into the bathroom
, a company engineer told the
BBC
.
The engineer, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect his job, said the bodyguards were "bulky" and "tall" and looked like they were from a "
Hollywood movie."
It is not a striking fact in the context of who Musk is: it is common for figures with high media exposure to be accompanied by bodyguards, or for companies to spend large sums of money providing them with security details.
Mark Zuckerberg, in fact, spends a million-dollar sum to guarantee his safety.
The engineer said he thought Musk's use of bodyguards inside Twitter's San Francisco headquarters suggested a
lack of trust
in the company's employees, according to the
BBC
report published on Sunday.
Musk has less and less trust in the company's employees.
(Photo: AP)
Twitter did not immediately respond to requests for comment from various US outlets that sought comment on the matter.
Musk's father, Errol, said in January that he feared for his son's safety even though he was protected by
"100 security guards
. "
Musk had upgraded Errol's security system for his South African home with
24-hour armed guards
, cameras and electric fences, Errol said.
Shortly after acquiring Twitter in October, Musk laid off thousands of the company's employees as part of a broad drive to cut costs.
The newspaper
The New York Times
assured last week that the last round of layoffs, 9 days ago, meant the departure of 10% of the 2,000 people that made up the workforce after several
rounds of cuts
that have left the company with practically the a quarter of its staff, as there were
7,500
at the time Elon Musk bought the company.
Twitter: second drop in a week
The social network works unstable.
Photo Reuters
Meanwhile, the social network remains unstable.
During the morning of this Monday, she experienced problems around the world when uploading photos or correctly viewing the desktop version.
The company, which thus suffered its second global decline in less than a week, did not give many details about the reasons, except that they had undertaken "some changes internally with
unforeseen consequences."
According to the DownDetector website, which monitors in real time the incidents that are registered in the main technology companies, the first problems have begun to be registered around 16:53 GMT and have affected users around the world.
Users of the platform have reported failures when accessing the desktop version through the computer, clicking on links
published on the web or tweeting images.
In some cases, messages posted by other users years ago have jumped to the "feed" of some accounts as if they were new.
This is the second fall that Twitter suffers in less than a week, after last Wednesday the social network, owned by Elon Musk, suffered failures that prevented some profiles from seeing new messages sent by their followers or updating the home page .
"
Things should be working normally.
Thanks for staying with us!" The social network wrote 50 minutes after admitting in another tweet that "some parts of Twitter are not working as expected at the moment."
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