Twitter Lays Off Dozens Of Employees

Some Learned Through Email and some couldn't Log In…

The layoffs hit several employees on teams across the company, including engineering and product, according to people familiar with this situation.

Some employees learned they were laid off by an email late Saturday, the people said, and others tweeted that they learned they were terminated when they could no longer log in to the system.

It's unclear exactly how many employees were impacted, though sources believe it was dozens. The Information previously reported more than 50 people were let go.

Twitter has not responded to a request for comment by Bloomberg News outside normal business hours.

Among those cuts was Esther Crawford, one of the executives who had been in charge of Twitter Blue, the site's subscription service, Platformer's Zoe Schiffer said in a tweet Sunday.

In the days after Musk's takeover of Twitter in 2022, she notably tweeted in a post that went viral that employees sometimes will have to #SleepWhereYouWork in order to meet their expected deadlines.

Crawford did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside working hours.

Number of startup founders who joined Twitter by acquisitions the past few years tweeted on Sunday that they would also be cut, including a founder of the newsletter startup Revue and the design firm Ueno.