There have been tons of tech firm takeovers in the past 10 years. I can't recall a single case like this, where employees were literally completely locked out o

There have been tons of tech firm takeovers in the past 10 years. I can't recall a single case like this, where employees were literally completely locked out of their own systems because of the risk of them going rogue (citing the source in the Bloomberg article, there). No major changes in product direction, yes, obviously. You don't want to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. No changes at all - and only for a week - is pretty clearly a sign that Twitter management fear emotional kneejerk extremism in their own employee base. The fact that they have to do this speaks volumes about the problems inside the company.