Twitter has laid off at least 50 more employees, according to a report by The Information and a former employee’s social media post.
And apparently, even Elon Musk follower Esther Crawford is the CEO of Twitter Payments, who oversaw the company’s Twitter Blue verified subscription. Platformer Zoe SchifferAlex Heath of The Verge Confirmed With Crawford and most of the rest of the product team laid off this weekend, many have speculated that Musk may be cleaning his house and redecorating with his new regime.
Remember, Crawford was wiped out last year by Musk’s full-blown Twitter acquisition. brag on a platform about sleeping in the office to deal with the round-the-clock demands of her new boss.
The layoffs came this weekend after Twitter employees realized they had been cut off from using Slack. It was later revealed that Twitter didn’t pay his Slack bills on time, but that’s not why the platform went down. The Platformer reported that someone at Twitter had manually blocked access. Many employees worry that this is the first sign of layoffs, and correlation and causation are not the same, but as layoffs began to drop like bombs, the entire company was forced out of their primary mode of communication. It cut off, causing confusion and panic.
“Slack is gone, so no one knows what’s going on,” reads one post from Blind, an anonymous platform for verified workers. “People get emails at 2 a.m. Saturday and are immediately disconnected. This will be remembered as one of the most extreme layoffs in the entire corporate history.”
This post details the scope of the workforce reductions. 50% Human Relations, 60% Sales and Marketing, 35% Engineering, 40% Finance, 80% Project Management. According to the poster, the employee said he received a month’s severance pay. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment, nor has it issued an official statement regarding the layoffs.
The Information report also notes that Twitter kicked off this string of layoffs by laying off its ad sales staff on February 17.
Senior Product Manager Martijn de Kuijper tweeted that he found himself out of a job after being locked out of his email account.
“I woke up and found myself locked out of my emails. I think I let go. This really ended my revue journey.” murmured de Kuijper. In 2021, the manager founded Revue, an editorial newsletter tool acquired by Twitter.
Since Musk acquired Twitter last October, the company’s headcount has fallen by more than 70%. This latest layoff comes after Musk promised no more layoffs in November. But since 2014, Musk has made promises he can’t keep, whether it’s pledging that Tesla will work out full self-driving cars “next year” or reassuring investors that he’s sold Tesla shares. famous for doing Tesla stock.
Musk did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment via Musk’s equivalent of Hail Mary’s tweet.
