Twitter has about 2,300 lively workers, Elon Musk mentioned in a Tweet on Saturday. CNBC reported on Friday that Twitter’s full-time headcount has been decreased to about 1,300 lively, working workers, together with fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title.
About 75 of the corporate’s 1,300 workers are on go away together with about 40 engineers, CNBC mentioned, citing inner data.
“The word is inaccurate. There are about 2300 lively, working workers at Twitter,” billionaire Musk tweeted in response to a tweet quoting CNBC.
The word is inaccurate. There are ~2300 lively, working workers at Twitter.
There are nonetheless a whole bunch of workers engaged on belief & security, together with a number of thousand contractors.
Lower than 10 folks from my different corporations are working at Twitter.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2023
“There are nonetheless a whole bunch of workers engaged on belief & security, together with a number of thousand contractors,” Musk added.
Musk took over Twitter in October and swiftly moved via plenty of product and organizational adjustments. The corporate rolled out Twitter-verified Blue check-mark as a paid service and in addition laid off about 50 p.c employees.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Twitter plans to put off 50 staff within the social media website’s product division within the coming weeks.
The layoffs, which come six weeks after prime boss Elon Musk reportedly advised employees that there wouldn’t be additional retrenchment, may cut back the corporate’s headcount to below 2,000, in accordance with the report.
Musk took over Twitter in October and swiftly moved via plenty of product and organizational adjustments. The corporate rolled out Twitter-verified Blue check-mark as a paid service and in addition laid off about 50 p.c employees. Musk had mentioned in November that Twitter was dealing with “an enormous drop in income” as advertisers dropped out.
Twitter’s income for the fourth quarter fell about 35 p.c to $1.025 billion (roughly Rs. 8300 crore), a prime promoting govt revealed at a employees assembly, on-line publication the Data reported on Wednesday.
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