Twitter is heading into its second full workweek under Elon Musk with half its workforce, mounting losses and a couple of unexpected reversals.

The whiplash events follow Musk’s own acknowledgment in a tweet that the company he and well-heeled partners bought for $44 billion is losing $4 million a day.

Here’s a recap of a tumultuous weekend that saw the billionaire owner issuing new edicts as some Twitter users reacted to the latest company news.

Mass layoffs, then reversal

The social-media company laid off close to 3,700 people Friday, only to reach out soon thereafter to dozens of employees who it decided were either fired in error or too essential to the changes the billionaire businessman wants to make.

Many employees learned they lost their job after their access to companywide systems, like email and Slack, was suddenly suspended. The requests for employees to return demonstrate how rushed and chaotic the process was.

A Twitter spokesperson didn’t reply to a request for comment.

“Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day,” Musk tweeted Friday.

Some regions were hit harder than others. The company fired more than 90% of its staff in India over the weekend, severely depleting its engineering and product staff, Bloomberg reported. The cuts left the company with about a dozen staff in the growth market.

Twitter has close to 3,700 employees remaining. Musk is pushing those who remain at the company to move quickly in shipping new features, and in some cases, employees have even slept at the office to meet new deadlines.

Charging for the blue check

Another of Musk’s key early goals — adding verification check marks to a monthly subscription service — is being delayed until Wednesday to avoid potential chaos during U.S. midterm elections.

Twitter has said it’s rolling out new features to its Twitter Blue subscription plan, offering a verification check mark for any user who pays the monthly fee. The company also said it will soon be launching other features, including half the ads, and the ability to post longer videos and get priority ranking in replies, mentions and searches.

Twitter will issue the new blue verification check marks to users who pay $7.99 a month for the service starting Wednesday, according to an internal company message that was posted on Slack. The company had previously planned to roll out the subscription feature Mondy, the day before the election.

“Widespread verification will democratize journalism and empower the voice of the people,” Musk said in a tweet.

The company reportedly received internal and external feedback that the verification process for its Twitter Blue program could be ripe for abuse. That raised concerns that candidates and other political actors might be impersonated on the site in the days before the election.

Impersonation suspensions

Musk tweeted late Sunday that Twitter also would permanently suspend any account on the social media platform that impersonates another.

He issued the warning after some celebrities changed their Twitter display names — not their account names — and tweeted as “Elon Musk” in reaction to the billionaire’s decision to offer verified accounts to all comers for $8 a month as he simultaneously laid off a big chunk of the workforce.

“Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” Musk wrote. While Twitter previously issued warnings before suspensions, now that it is rolling out “widespread verification, there will be no warning.”

Comedian Kathy Griffin’s account was suspended Sunday after she switched her screen name to Musk. She told a Bloomberg reporter she had also used his profile photo.

“I guess not ALL the content moderators were let go? Lol,” Griffin joked afterward on Mastodon, an alternative social media platform where she set up an account last week.

Actor Valerie Bertinelli had similarly appropriated Musk’s screen name — posting a series of tweets in support of Democratic candidates Saturday before switching back to her true name. “Okey-dokey. I’ve had fun and I think I made my point,” she tweeted afterward.