Hundreds of Twitter employees announce their resignations with farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets following Elon Musk’s “hardcore” ultimatum.

Following the deadline, hundreds of employees began posting farewell messages and salute emojis in Twitter’s Slack, announcing that they had refused Musk’s ultimatum.

Twitter had roughly 2,900 employees left before the deadline Thursday, owing to Musk’s unceremonious dismissal of roughly half of the 7,500-person workforce when he took over, as well as the resignations that followed.