A quarter stated that they opted to stay "reluctantly," while just 7% stated that they "clicked yes to stay, I'm hardcore."
Musk was meeting with senior staff to attempt to persuade them to remain, according to one current employee and a recently departed employee in contact with Twitter colleagues.
While it is unknown how many people choose to stay, the figures illustrate some employees' unwillingness to stay at a business where Musk has fired half of its employees, including senior management, and is brutally transforming the culture to emphasise long hours and a fast pace.
A quarter said they chose to stay "reluctantly," while only 7% said they "clicked yes to continue, I'm a diehard."
According to one current employee and a recently left employee in contact with Twitter colleagues, Musk was meeting with top workers to try to encourage them to stay.
While it is unclear how many people choose to stay, the figures show that some employees are unwilling to stay at a company where Musk has fired half of its employees, including senior management, and is brutally transforming the culture to emphasise long hours and a fast pace.
According to the former employee, approximately 40 Twitter employees left in a secret Signal session with roughly 50 others.
According to a person with knowledge of the Slack group, roughly 360 people joined a new channel labelled "voluntary-layoff" in a secret Slack group for Twitter's current and past workers.
A separate Blind survey questioned personnel to estimate how many people would leave Twitter depending on their impression. More than half of respondents predicted that at least half of their staff will quit.
On Thursday, blue hearts and salute emojis swamped Twitter and its internal chatrooms for the second time in two weeks as Twitter employees bid farewell.
By 6 p.m. Eastern, more than two dozen Twitter employees in the United States and Europe had announced their resignations in public Twitter posts reviewed by Reuters, though each resignation could not be independently verified.
Musk contacted Twitter staff early Wednesday, stating, "Going forward, to develop a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and prosper in a more competitive environment, we will need to be really rigorous."
The email invited employees to respond by clicking "yes" if they wished to stay. Those who do not respond by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday will be considered to have quit and will receive a severance package, according to the email.
Employees scrambled to figure out what to do as the deadline approached.
According to one departing employee, one team within Twitter decided to take the leap together and leave the company.
In an apparent dig at Musk's call for "hardcore" employees, several departing engineers' Twitter bios on Thursday described themselves as "softcore engineers" or "ex-hardcore engineers."
