Twitter has laid off at the very least one other 50 workers, in accordance with a report from The Information and posts on social media from former employees.
And apparently not even Elon Musk loyalist Esther Crawford, the chief govt of Twitter funds who oversaw the corporate’s Twitter Blue verification subscription, was spared, in accordance with Platformer’s Zoë Schiffer. Alex Heath of The Verge additionally confirmed that Crawford and a lot of the remaining product workforce had been laid off this weekend, main many to invest that Musk is cleansing home to redecorate with a brand new regime.
Recall that Crawford had been swept up by Musk’s hardcore takeover of Twitter final yr, even boasting on the platform about sleeping on the workplace to deal with round the clock calls for from her new boss.
The layoffs got here this weekend after Twitter workers realized they’d been minimize off from utilizing Slack. While it later got here out that Twitter hadn’t paid its Slack invoice on time, that’s not why the platform went down. The Platformer reported that somebody at Twitter manually shut off entry. Many workers frightened that this was the primary signal of layoffs to come back, and whereas correlation doesn’t equal causation, a whole firm being minimize off from their most important mode of communication as layoffs began dropping like bombs brought about confusion and panic throughout.
“Slack is gone so noone know what is going on,” reads one submit on Blind, an nameless platform for verified employees. “People receive email at 2am on saturday and access cut immediately. This will go down as one of the most extreme layoff in entire corporate history”
The submit went on to element the extent of the layoffs: 50% in human relations, 60% in gross sales and advertising, 35% in engineering, 40% in finance and 80% in mission administration. Employees have acquired one month’s severance, the poster stated. Twitter has not responded to requests for remark, nor has it launched a public assertion on the layoffs.
The Information’s report additionally notes that Twitter kicked off this spherical of layoffs by letting go of its advert gross sales workers on February 17.
A senior product supervisor, Martijn de Kuijper, tweeted that he discovered about his personal lack of a job after being locked out of his e mail account.
“Waking up to find I’ve been locked out of my email. Looks like I’m let go. Now my Revue journey is really over,” tweeted de Kuijper. The supervisor based Revue, an editorial publication instrument acquired by Twitter in 2021.
Since Musk took over Twitter in October final yr, the corporate’s headcount has fallen by over 70%. This newest spherical of layoffs comes after Musk promised in November that no extra layoffs had been to come back. But Musk has a popularity for making guarantees he can’t hold, whether or not it’s swearing that Tesla will clear up full self-driving “next year” yearly since 2014 or reassuring buyers that he’s executed promoting Tesla inventory, solely to promote $3.5 billion extra in Tesla inventory.
Musk has not responded to TechCrunch’s request for remark, made through the Musk equal of a Hail Mary — by means of a tweet.