If you’ve been trying to keep up with all the Drama at Twitter since Elon took over, I bet you’ve found it as confusing as me. It’s been such a wild ride that it’s difficult to distinguish the reality from parody sites like The Onion, and I frequently find myself guessing wrong as to which it is.

Gergely Orosz over at the Pragmatic Engineer has a great synopsis timeline with plenty of reference material to keep up with it all. You can read the full breakdown here:

The Scoop: Twitter's ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers

The cliff notes version of the saga so far:

• Week 1: 50% Layoff
• Week 2: Oops, can you come back? And now, everyone codes.
• Week 3: The “Twitter 2.0” Ultimatum
• In the week since the Twitter 2.0 Deadline ( Nov 17th)
  • End of Remote Work
  • Except I closed all the offices
  • Except come back Friday night at 2pm for a Code Review
  • Announcing that we’re “Done with Layoffs”
  • Layoff the european offices
  • Start “Accepting Resignations” From the Twitter2.0 fiasco
  • Weekly Code Reviews with Elon
  • And summary terminations due to “poor code quality” on Wed Nov 23rd, the day before Thanksgiving.

I’ve seen lots of articles talking about how Elon is mimicing great leaders of history, turning around slow and bloated companies. Honestly, I don’t see it. This reads like Dilbert comics come to life.