Twitter could cut more of its shrinking workforce as early as Monday. According to Bloomberg, Elon Musk is considering fresh layoffs that would target the company’s sales and partnerships teams. The extent of the potential cuts is unclear, but comes after a large number of employees rejected Musk’s Twitter 2.0 ultimatum. Musk reportedly on Friday asked Robin Wheeler, Twitter’s head of ad sales, and Maggie Suniewick, the company’s head of partnerships, to lay off more employees. Both were terminated after being pushed back.
Twitter did not immediately respond to Engadget’s request for comment. The company no longer has a communications team. If Twitter goes ahead with the cuts, they would come after Musk has already laid off 50 percent of the company’s previously 7,500-strong workforce. With most of the site’s contract employees gone and “at least 1,200” employees leaving in the wake of Musk’s ultimatum, there are concerns that the attrition will render parts of Twitter inoperable.
There are signs it is already happening. On Saturday, some users noticed that the platform’s automated copyright strike system wasn’t working. In a thread spotted by The Verge, someone posted the entirety of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in almost 50 tweets. The thread was active and widely shared for about a full day before Twitter banned the account responsible for the film’s release.
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