Four months after the wave of layoffs at Twitter began, Elon Musk has continued to make cuts to his workforce. As reported by The New York Times over the past weekend, the social network laid off 10% of its employees, totaling 200 workers. Among them was Twitter Blue boss Esther Crawford, who became known for, as one of her workers claimed in a tweet, sleeping in the offices in order to meet the demands Musk imposed:
When you need something from your boss at elon twitter pic.twitter.com/hfArXl5NiL
— Evan Jones (@evanstnlyjones) November 2, 2022
The product manager and head of Twitter’s premium subscription service, who had been working for Twitter since 2020, confirmed the news of her dismissal on the platform. In the post, she assured that her relentless dedication had still not been enough to keep her job and that she had no regrets:
The worst take you could have from watching me go all-in on Twitter 2.0 is that my optimism or hard work was a mistake. Those who jeer & mock are necessarily on the sidelines and not in the arena. I’m deeply proud of the team for building through so much noise & chaos. 💙
— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) February 27, 2023
Slack shutdown, first sign of new layoffs at Twitter
The rest of the laid-off personnel were slightly more indignant when they learned that they would no longer be working for the company. As several people familiar with the matter told The New York Times, they became suspicious when Twitter pulled the plug on its internal messaging service, Slack, over the course of last week. On Saturday night, many of them discovered that their corporate email accounts and laptops had been disconnected. The following day, some employees posted farewell messages via Twitter due to the impossibility of doing so in person:
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 🫡
— Martijn (@mdekuijper) February 26, 2023
As reported by the NYT, the layoffs mainly affected product managers, data scientists and engineers in the site's machine learning and reliability division. As a result, the monetization infrastructure team was drastically reduced from 30 people to just eight.
