In latest round of layoffs, Twitter cuts engineering and product jobs

Twitter Inc laid off more employees late Saturday in a fresh wave of cuts to curb costs at the Elon Musk-owned social networking company.

The layoffs hit employees on the company’s teams, including engineering and product, according to people familiar with the situation. Some employees learned they were fired via an email late Saturday, the people said, and others tweeted they learned they were terminated when they couldn’t log into an internal system. Were.

It is not clear how many employees were affected, although sources believe it was dozens. The Information had earlier reported that more than 50 people had been let go.

Twitter has not responded to a request for comment by Bloomberg News outside normal business hours.

Platformer’s Zoe Schiffer said in a tweet on Sunday that among those cut was Esther Crawford, who was in charge of Twitter Blue, the site’s subscription service.

In the days following Musk’s acquisition of Twitter last year, he notably tweeted in a post that went viral that employees would sometimes #SleepWhereYouWork to meet deadlines.

Crawford did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours.

It has just been confirmed that Twitter Payments chief executive Esther Crawford is out.

— Zoe Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) February 26, 2023

Several startup founders who joined Twitter through acquisitions over the past few years tweeted on Sunday that they too had been cut, including the founders of newsletter Startup Review and design firm Uno. People familiar with the company said that previously, Twitter had tried to avoid cutting off founders to avoid ramping up large stock grants.

Musk eliminated more than 3,700 jobs at Twitter, or half of the company’s workforce, to cut costs following its $44 billion acquisition last year.