After a media report claimed that Twitter shed about 80 per cent of its employees since Elon Musk took over and its headcount is hovering around 1,300 working employees, CEO Elon Musk on Saturday refuted the claim and siad that the micro-blogging platform has nearly 2,300 active working employees.
A report from CNBC has claimed that Internal records show that Twitter has shed about 80 per cent of its employees since Elon Musk took over and is now working with fewer than 550 full-time engineers.
Musk on Saturday Tweeted, “The note is incorrect. There are ~2300 active, working employees at Twitter. There are still hundreds of employees working on trust & safety, along with several thousand contractors.”
The CNBC report also said that nearly 75 of the company's 1,300 employees are on leave, including about 40 engineers. Adding that in addition to the 1,300 full-time Twitter employees, new owner, and CEO Elon Musk has authorised about 130 people from his other companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Co., to work for Twitter.
On this claim, Musk wrote, “Less than 10 people from my other companies are working at Twitter.”
CNBC report said that one former Twitter engineer says the remaining team will be spread thin, and will likely have a hard time maintaining the service while adding new features.
Under Musk, Twitter has fired hundreds of people, setting off a wave of major layoffs at rival tech firms as the cash crunch deepened amid worries about a coming recession.
Meanwhile, the Twitter CEO also announced that soon Twitter will translate and recommend "amazing tweets from people in other countries and cultures".
"There are epic tweets in other countries every day (Japan especially). Tweets will be translated before being recommended," he said.