Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended
I hope that the wheels stay on sufficiently to get an idea of where EM wants to take Twitter and find out what kind of value it can bring.  Having said that, he really made it obvious to me as an eng that the severance is the option I would be taking.  Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people.  But somebody who takes over the company and accrues so much social debt so quickly for no other discernible reason than looking like the smartest person in the room misses the bar for "the right people" by a pretty significant margin.