Angry Twitter employees have taken to social media after being fired over email by new Twitter owner Elon Musk.
Twitter began notifying employees affected by a far-reaching round of job cuts as new owner, Elon Musk, said the business experienced a “massive drop” in revenue due to advertisers withdrawing.
Musk, the world’s richest person, is looking to cut around 3,700 Twitter staff, or about half the workforce, as he seeks to slash costs and impose a demanding new work ethic, according to internal plans reviewed by Reuters this week.Staff who worked in engineering, communications, product and content curation were among those impacted by the layoffs, according to tweets from Twitter staff.
Musk blamed civil rights activists’ pressure on advertisers for a ”massive drop in revenue” in a tweet on Friday morning. “Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”Speaking at an investors conference in New York on Friday, Musk called the activist pressure “an attack on the First Amendment.”Some staff tweeted they lost access to work email and Slack channels before receiving an official notice, which they took as a sign they had been laid off.
Senior executives including vice president of engineering Arnaud Weber also said their goodbyes on Twitter on Friday: “Twitter still has a lot of unlocked potential but I’m proud of what we accomplished,” he tweeted. Twitter hired consulting firm KPMG in some international markets, including in Asia, to assist with the layoffs, according to one person familiar with the manner.
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