Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks on the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition, March 9, 2020, in Washington.

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks on the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition, March 9, 2020, in Washington.

Susan Walsh/AP

SAN FRANCISCO — If you are not advised you’re fired, are you actually fired? At Twitter, most likely. And then, generally, you get your job again — in order for you it.

Haraldur Thorleifsson, who till not too long ago was employed at Twitter, logged in to his laptop final Sunday to do some work — solely to seek out himself locked out, together with 200 others.

He may need figured, as others earlier than him have within the chaotic months of layoffs and firings since Elon Musk took over the corporate, that he was out of a job.

Instead, after 9 days of no reply from Twitter as as to whether or not he was nonetheless employed, Thorleifsson determined to tweet at Musk to see if he may catch the billionaire’s consideration and get a solution to his Schrödinger’s job scenario.

“Maybe if enough people retweet you’ll answer me here?” he wrote on Monday.

Eventually, he acquired his reply after a surreal Twitter change with Musk, who proceeded to quiz him about his work, query his incapacity and want for lodging (Thorleifsson, who goes by “Halli,” has muscular dystrophy and makes use of a wheelchair) and tweet that Thorleifsson has a “prominent, active Twitter account and is wealthy” and the “reason he confronted me in public was to get a big payout.” While the change was occurring, Thorleifsson mentioned he obtained an e-mail that he was now not employed.

Late Tuesday afternoon, nonetheless, Musk had a change of coronary heart.

“I would like to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation. It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful,” he tweeted. “He is considering remaining at Twitter.”

Thorleifsson didn’t instantly reply to a message for remark following Musk’s tweet. In an earlier e-mail, he referred to as the expertise “surreal.”

“You had every right to lay me off. But it would have been nice to let me know!” he tweeted to Musk.

Thorleifsson, who lives in Iceland, has about 151,000 Twitter followers (Musk has over 130 million). He joined Twitter in 2021, when the corporate, below the prior administration, acquired his startup Ueno.

He was lauded in Icelandic media for selecting to obtain the acquisition worth in wages reasonably than a lump sum payout. That’s as a result of this fashion, he would pay greater taxes to Iceland in help of its social providers and security internet.

Thorleifsson’s subsequent transfer: “I’m opening a restaurant in downtown Reykjavik very soon,” he tweeted. “It’s named after my mom.”

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a message for remark.