In what became a monthly Twitter event, the company scaled back even further. Twitter reportedly fired “at least a dozen” workers in its Dublin and Singapore offices on Friday evening. Second , among the victims is Analuisa Dominguez, the company’s former senior director of revenue policy. The outlet reports that Twitter has also fired workers responsible for managing the company’s disinformation policy, as well as a handful of employees involved in the platform’s global appeals process and media program.
Twitter’s head of trust and security Ella Irwin confirmed the company recently laid off more staff, but took issue with the teams affected by the cuts. “For example, it made more sense to group teams under one leader (instead of two),” she said. Bloomberg, adding that Twitter eliminated roles in areas where the company didn’t see enough “volume” to justify the talent spend. He also said that Twitter has increased the staff of its appeals department and will continue to have a head of revenue policy.
On Nov. 21, shortly after Elon Musk sent his employees to Twitter, the company would no longer fire or fire workers at a show of hands meeting. While the scale of Twitter’s subsequent layoffs hasn’t matched those that occurred immediately after Musk’s takeover, the company has scaled back despite the billionaire’s hiring. The company let go in the middle of last month. A recent estimate of The information it puts the company’s workforce at around 2,000, just over a quarter of what it had before the Musk purchase.
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