Twitter has laid off at least 200 workers, or about 10 p.c of its workforce, the New York Times 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, knowledge scientists, and engineers who labored on machine studying and web site reliability, which helps maintain Twitter’s varied options on-line, the NYT report mentioned, citing folks accustomed to the matter.
Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
The firm has a headcount of about 2,300 lively workers, based on Elon Musk final month.
The newest job cuts comply with 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 mentioned in November that the service was experiencing a “massive drop in revenue” as advertisers pulled spending amid issues about content material moderation.
Twitter lately began sharing income from commercials with some of its content material creators.
Earlier in the day, The Information 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 places of work in India after the corporate had fired greater than 90 p.c of simply over 200 of its employees in India final yr.
The social media firm reportedly shut down places of work in New Delhi and Mumbai however continued to function its workplace in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru which principally homes engineers.
 Thomson Reuters 2023
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