FORMER Twitter employees have shared their criticisms of Elon Musk’s tenure with the platform.

Musk bought Twitter a year ago this week and has made significant changes to the platform since shelling out $44billion for it.

The tumultuous tenure included the controversial name change from Twitter to X and has included many more mishaps and blunders since.

Employees who left the company during the beginning of Musk’s tenure have been keeping receipts of Twitter’s mishaps, and documenting them against the company’s performance before the change.

“Twitter was a place where you could meet the most amazing people,” Melissa Ingle, a former Twitter senior data scientist said to Fast Company.

“Then Musk came along and stripped it for parts and aired out all our dirty laundry in an extremely calculated way.”

Ingle claims she has been personally threatened on Twitter since the regime change, but even after reports nothing was done.

“I was threatened bodily and reported it, but the tweet was up for months,” she said.

One of Musk’s first orders of business was to lay off a massive percentage of the workforce at Twitter, leaving the company critically understaffed.

Staffing issues parlayed into more problems on Twitter, including fake news, child sexual abuse material, and other safety features.

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“All of the programs that I was involved in have basically been taken down or dismantled,” Theodora Skeadas, a former member of Twitter’s public policy team and safety council said.

“Unfortunately, the impact has been pretty severe.”

“Civic integrity work is either reduced or in some cases not happening at all.”

Others are concerned about Musk’s behavior as the leader of Twitter. From the way he goes about standard business to staff cuts, his “trial and error” mindset rubbed some the wrong way.

“There’s a lot of ruthlessness and clumsiness in his behavior,” Manu Cornet, a former software engineer at Twitter said.

“There’s also a lot of let’s not take no for an answer and no bullshit.”

Cornet also worried about the mindset of the staff Musk would bring in and how much they would have to work with fewer people in the building.

“I’m guessing people who are still there are working insane hours, which is not something that will be sustainable in the long term,” he said.

“I’m more concerned about it becoming more of a cesspool of people who are increasingly right-leaning and whether it may not be a representative sample of the population.”

None of the former staff members believed Musk was doing a good job with Twitter. Alongside that, only four percent of users believe the rebrand to X was positive, while 67 percent thought it was negative, according to YouGov.

“I think he’s made decisions that have harmed individuals and have also undermined the company’s success,” Skeadas said.