Twitter fires product manager leading Blue subscription project

After another round of layoffs, Twitter product manager Esther Crawford is no longer employed by the company.

Crawford led various projects at Twitter, including the company’s Blue with verified subscriptions and its upcoming payments platform.

More than 50 employees were affected by the layoffs, spread across multiple departments. Martijn de Kuijper, the creator of the now-defunct Review newsletter platform, which was acquired by Twitter in 2021, was also there, The Verge reported, citing sources.

With this recent cut, Twitter CEO Elon Musk Have done at least four rounds of layoffs.

This is despite his promise not to sack more employees after his brutal layoff exercise in November last year that affected two-thirds of the micro-blogging platform’s 7,500 employees.

On Sunday, it was reported that Twitter CEO was laying off more Twitter employees and affected employees received notices via email on Saturday.

The recent cuts targeted several departments including advertising and infrastructure engineering.

Now, the company is likely to have fewer than 2,000 employees, down from about 7,500 when Musk took over.

Earlier this month, Musk fired dozens of employees in the sales and engineering departments, including one of Musk’s direct reporting executives who was managing engineering for Twitter’s advertising business.

The company also closed two of its three India offices and directed its employees to work from home as part of the Twitter CEO’s mission to cut costs and make the struggling social media service profitable.

Twitter closed its offices in New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai.

In November last year, Musk laid off more than 90 per cent of its employees in India, more than 200

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