Twitterwhich after the acquisition of the tycoon Elon Musk has seen its staff reduced to a quarter of what it was a year ago, The weekend has begun A new round of layoffs affecting 10% of the remaining 2,000 workersReported this Monday The New York Times.

The newspaper, which compared this information to several victims, notes that The layoffs began Saturday night and ended SundayA few days later, when some employees began viewing their accounts on the internal messaging service Slack, or had their corporate accounts or laptops confiscated.

Those affected include digital data experts, production managers, and engineers responsible for configuring algorithms or maintaining Twitter’s various applications.

In addition, the group includes the creators of small technology companies absorbed by Twitter at the time, such as Esther CrawfordThe creator of Squat (a video chat app) and Haraldur TorleifssonFounder of digital design studio Uono.

Crawford went viral after he was shown sleeping on the office floor as a sign of his commitment to the company to achieve his team’s goals.

After just a week at Twitter, Elon Musk has laid off nearly half of the 7,500 people who work at the network, at its San Francisco headquarters and elsewhere around the world. Hundreds of others left voluntarily given the volatile course it experienced in the first months.

however, In November, Musk announced at an internal meeting that he had no plans to cut staff.Which seems to contradict what happened over the weekend and which wasn’t publicly explained (neither were previous rounds of releases).

The social network is trying to minimize the loss – Last November, Musk said he was losing “4 million dollars a day” – for which closed stores, cut contracts with service companies (cleaning, for example) and Sold hundreds of furniture and office objects at auction.

At the same time, he started calling Twitter Blue, A paid version ($8 per month) that allows users to edit their tweets or make them appear higher in the feed that others see.

While Twitter has not commented on the success of Twitter Blue, its idea of ​​paying for an enhanced version of the free network has already been embraced by Meta, which last week announced Meta Verified, which enables an improved service for Facebook and Instagram. on .

(with information from EFE)

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