More Layoffs at Twitter, Sacks Another 200 Employees

VIVA – According to a report from American media, Twitter has laid off more than 200 employees on Saturday. This affects the engineering teams that support core applications, ads, and technical infrastructure that keep Twitter’s systems up and running.

The company laid off 50 percent of staff in November after Musk complained about a "huge drop in revenue" following allegations of censorship. Twitter's staff has reportedly shrunk by 70 percent to around 2,000 since then.

Surprisingly, this layoff also affects Esther Crawford Twitter’s Chief Payments Executive who oversees Twitter Blue’s verification subscriptions.

Crawford and the most of remaining products team were laid off this weekend, it makes many people speculate that Elon Musk is cleaning the company to redecorate with a new regime.

The layoffs came after Twitter employees realized that they had been terminated from using Slack. Although it was later discovered that Twitter didn’t pay Slack’s bills on time, that wasn’t the reason why the platform went down.

Platformer reported that someone at Twitter manually shut down access. Many employees are worried that this is a sign of impending layoffs where entire companies are cut off from their primary mode of communication as layoffs start dropping like bombs causing confusion and panic everywhere.

"Slack is gone so no one knows what's going on," wrote one post on Blind, an anonymous platform for verified workers.

"People received emails at 2 am on Saturday and access was immediately cut. This will go down as one of the most extreme layoffs in the entire history of the company," he continued.

It is known that employees have received one month’s severance pay. So far, Twitter hasn’t responded to comment yet, nor has it released a public statement on the layoffs. The Information report also noted the platform started this round of layoffs by letting go of its ad sales staff on February 17.