New wave of layoffs for the blue bird. Twitter has laid off at least 200 employees, or 10% of its workforce, including the director of product development and architect of the new paid subscription, according to information from the New York Times.
The layoffs include product managers, big data experts and engineers working on machine learning and platform reliability, the US daily reported Sunday evening. Contacted by AFP, the social network did not immediately confirm.
Twitter Blue manager fired
According to New York Times, Esther Crawford, in charge of the social network’s products in development, is one of the employees thanked. She was one of the few Twitter executives in place before Elon Musk’s acquisition who had not resigned or been fired.
Head of the new Twitter Blue verification program, she had shown loyal support for Elon Musk and the company, going so far as to retweet a photo where she was seen sleeping in a sleeping bag at her workplace. “The worst thing you can think seeing me go all out on Twitter 2.0 is that my optimism and hard work was a mistake,” Esther Crawford tweeted Monday.
From 7,500 to less than 2,300 employees
“Those who scoff and mock are necessarily on the sidelines and not in the arena. I am deeply proud of the team that has been able to build itself through so much noise and chaos,” she added. Elon Musk fired half of Twitter’s workforce in early November days after buying the company for $44 billion.
This massive social plan was followed by other dismissals and resignations. The Californian company had nearly 7,500 employees in October 2022. At the end of January, Elon Musk indicated that there remained “about 2,300 active employees” at Twitter. THE New york Times estimates that the workforce of the social network amounts to less than 2,000 people. According to our colleagues across the Atlantic who quote a person familiar with the matter, the monetization team, which manages the services through which Twitter makes money, has been reduced to less than eight people out of 30.