Twitter Doles Out Stock, Cash Bonuses To Retain Talent

With so many top executives leaving the company in the past few weeks, maybe bribing your remaining employees might actually be a good idea. Would you take cash and stocks to stay somewhere you didn't want to be?

Twitter has been offering cash bonuses to some employees, ranging from $50,000 to $200,000 as an incentive to keep them around for another six months to a year, the Journal reported on Wednesday. The company has also granted varying amounts of restricted stock depending on when the employees started working, intending to make up for the value lost since they joined the company, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Maybe if they didn't go full SJW and piss off half of all users by banning, shadowbanning, and harassing anyone to the right of Lenin with Anita Sarkeesian's new Ministry of Truth? The brighter execs can see that the company is headed into Myspace-level oblivion fast, so they're finding another steady paycheck and cashing out any stock and options while they are still worth more than Venezuelan currency. Barring a stockholder lawsuit that ousts Jack, Twitter is doomed.

Twitter is still really stupid and its fad status is waning. I predict a MySpace situation in 5 years or less.

Not a bad deal, the stock has dropped a lot already. Don't think it has much more downside potential unless they're on their way to bankruptcy. Buyout rumors already started when they were in the $20 per share range.

Quix said:

Twitter is still really stupid and its fad status is waning. I predict a MySpace situation in 5 years or less.

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Without Twitter, where would the news article writers get quotes for their pieces?