A two-year Twitter employee didn't know whether he'd been laid off, so he asked CEO Elon Musk in a message on Twitter. The ensuing exchange was viewed by thousands of Twitter users in real time.
Days after Musk acquired Twitter in October, the company began
that ultimately cut more than half of its 7,500-person workforce, raising concerns about Twitter's capacity to maintain its platform.workers to commit to being "extremely hardcore" or accept three months of severance upon their exit from the company. Many chose to leave. For his part, Musk defended his actions at Twitter as part of an aggressive effort to rescue the company from financial peril, which he described in a Twitter Spaces interview in December as an "emergency fire drill."A view of Twitter Headquarters, Feb. 8, 2023, in San Francisco.Musk previously said he overpaid for the platform at the purchasing price of $44 billion.
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