Twitter has laid off no less than 200 workers, or about 10 % of its workforce, the New York Instances reported late on Sunday, in its newest spherical of job cuts since Elon Musk took over the micro-blogging web site final October.
The layoffs on Saturday night time impacted product managers, information scientists, and engineers who labored on machine studying and web site reliability, which helps preserve Twitter’s varied options on-line, the NYT report stated, citing individuals aware of the matter.
Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
The corporate has a headcount of about 2,300 lively workers, in keeping with Elon Musk final month.
The newest job cuts observe a mass layoff in early November, when Twitter laid off about 3,700 workers in a cost-cutting measure by Musk, who had acquired the corporate for $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,64,720 crore).
Musk stated in November that the service was experiencing a “huge drop in income” as advertisers pulled spending amid issues about content material moderation.
Twitter just lately began sharing income from ads with a few of its content material creators.
Earlier within the day, The Data reported that the social media platform laid off dozens of workers on Saturday, aiming to offset a plunge in income.
Earlier this month, Twitter closed two of its three workplaces in India after the corporate had fired greater than 90 % of simply over 200 of its employees in India final yr.
The social media firm reportedly shut down workplaces in New Delhi and Mumbai however continued to function its workplace within the southern tech hub of Bengaluru which largely homes engineers.
Thomson Reuters 2023
