realized the firings went too far and tried to hire some people back especially those in charge of money-generating products that, well, nobody else knew how to run. musk way overpaid for the company, is desperate to raise cash and is counting on a major chunk of revenue from that $8 monthly verification fee that many are resisting as a ripoff, and it s been put on hold after those verified miraculously included jesus christ. plus, advertisers are holding back to see if twitter becomes toxic. along with twitter s staff firings, mark zuckerberg just laid off # 1,000 staffers at meta/facebook a company that s lost 70% of its value this year. tough times for tech. elon musk tweeted the other day that twitter will do lots of dumb things. that s fine, but he needs to move quickly to get rid of the stupid things and keep the smart stuff. the clock is ticking. that s it for this edition of