Elon Musk To Lay Off Extra Twitter Workers In Coming Weeks: Report

San Francisco:

Twitter Inc plans to put off 50 employees within the social media web site’s product division within the coming weeks, information web site Insider reported on Wednesday, citing two individuals acquainted with the corporate.

The layoffs, which come six weeks after prime boss Elon Musk reportedly informed workers that there wouldn’t be additional retrenchment, might cut back the corporate’s headcount to underneath 2,000, in response to the report.

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.

Musk took over Twitter in October and swiftly moved via quite a lot of product and organizational modifications. The corporate rolled out Twitter-verified Blue check-mark as a paid service and in addition laid off about 50% workers.

Musk had stated in November that Twitter was going through “a large drop in income” as advertisers dropped out.

Twitter’s income for the fourth quarter fell about 35% to $1.025 billion, a prime advert government revealed at a workers assembly, on-line publication the Info reported on Wednesday.

Workers cuts to date, which additionally included staff working within the content material moderation division, have stoked fears of a surge in hate speech on the platform.

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