Elon Musk 'rehires' Twitter employees Ligma and Johnson; admits 'firing them was big mistake'

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday took to the micro-blogging site and shared a picture of him posing the two popular pranksters -- Rahul Ligma and Daniel Johnson with a caption: "Welcoming back Ligma & Johnson!". In the next tweet, he added that it is "Important to admit when I'm wrong & firing them was truly one of my biggest mistakes." 

Welcoming back Ligma & Johnson! pic.twitter.com/LEhXV95Njj

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2022

Ligma and Johnson tricked several international news outlets into reporting that they were actually fired by Musk. Amid the mass layoffs in the company, the duo had gone viral after being photographed leaving Twitter's San Francisco office carrying one box of belongings each in their hands. 

Several images and videos went viral in which two men carrying boxes were seen standing near the entrance of Twitter's San Francisco building, claiming to have been laid off by Musk. The richest man in the world had even come up with a witty reaction to the whole prankster episode by tweeting, "Ligma Johnson had it coming."

In related news, an IANS report calimed that Elon Musk has fired at least 20 employees at Twitter who criticised his actions either on Twitter or on internal messaging platform Slack and some were sacked just for retweeting posts slamming the new Twitter CEO. Musk, who laid off about 3,800 full-time employees and more than 5,000 contractual workers is additionally getting rid of anyone who dares criticise him.

Platformer's Casey Newton put the number of those sacked closer to 20 software engineer and tech writer Gergely Orosz tweeted that around 10 people have been fired for speaking up internally against Musk. "For those saying that criticising should be done in private: I have reports for a number of employees similarly terminated the past 24 hours who were criticising Musk's tweet on an internal Slack watercooler channel. Some criticised other eng leaders. Ten people, as I hear," tweeted Orosz.