Twitter now automatically responds to all press emails with a single poop emoji, months after laying off its communications team

• Twitter's press email is now responding to requests from the media with a single poop emoji.

• Elon Musk announced the new policy in a tweet Sunday morning, and Insider promptly tested it.

• Twitter's communications team was among the first groups decimated by rounds of layoffs after Musk took over.

Twitter has finally resumed communicating with journalists again, after months of silence since Elon Musk's takeover of the company.

However, don't expect an actual answer to media inquiries about mass layoffs, declines in advertising revenue, outages, and lawsuits. Instead, the account is sending automated responses of a single poop emoji, after Musk announced the new policy Sunday morning.

Insider promptly tested the email, and sure enough, received this near instantaneous response: