Elon Musk Says Twitter Has 2,300 Lively Workers, Refutes Report of 75 P.c on Staff Being on Depart

Twitter has about 2,300 energetic staff, Elon Musk mentioned in a Tweet on Saturday. CNBC on Friday reported that Twitter’s full-time headcount has decreased to about 1,300 energetic, working staff, together with fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title.

About 75 of the corporate’s 1,300 staff are on depart together with about 40 engineers, CNBC mentioned, citing inside data.

“The note is incorrect. There are about 2300 active, working employees at Twitter,” billionaire Musk tweeted in a response to a tweet quoting CNBC.

The be aware is inaccurate. There are ~2300 energetic, working staff at Twitter.

There are nonetheless a whole lot of staff engaged on belief & security, together with a number of thousand contractors.

Less than 10 individuals from my different firms are working at Twitter.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2023

“There are still hundreds of employees working on trust & safety, along with several thousand contractors,” Musk added.

Musk took over Twitter in October and swiftly moved via numerous product and organizational modifications. The firm rolled out Twitter-verified Blue check-mark as a paid service and in addition laid off about 50 p.c employees.

Earlier this week, it was reported that Twitter plans to put off 50 employees within the social media website’s product division within the coming weeks.

The layoffs, which come six weeks after prime boss Elon Musk reportedly instructed employees that there wouldn’t be additional retrenchment, might scale back the corporate’s headcount to below 2,000, in line with the report.

Musk took over Twitter in October and swiftly moved via numerous product and organizational modifications. The firm rolled out Twitter-verified Blue check-mark as a paid service and in addition laid off about 50 p.c employees. Musk had mentioned in November that Twitter was going through “a massive drop in revenue” as advertisers dropped out.

Twitter’s income for the fourth quarter fell about 35 p.c to $1.025 billion (roughly Rs. 8300 crore), a prime advert government revealed at a employees assembly, on-line publication the Information reported on Wednesday.

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