Twitter Shuts It’s Delhi Mumbai Offices

Asks Staff to Work from Home…

Twitter has shut two of its three offices in India and told its staff to work from home, underscoring Elon Musk's mission to slash costs and get the struggling social media service in the black.

Twitter has fired more than 90 percent of its more than 200-plus staff in India late last year, closed its offices in the political centre New Delhi and financial hub of Mumbai.

The company will operate its office in Bengaluru that mostly houses engineers, the people said, declining to be identified as the information is private.

Billionaire Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has fired staff and shut offices around the world as part of an effort to get Twitter financially stable by late 2023.

Yet India is considered as a key growth market for US tech giants from Meta Platforms Inc. to Alphabet Inc.'s Google, which are making long-term bets on the world's fastest-growing internet arena.

Twitter has evolved in past years into one of India's most important public forums, home to heated political discourse and PM Narendra Modi's 86.5 million followers.

Yet revenue there is not significant for Elon's company, which also has to contend with strict regulations of contents and increasingly savvy local competition.

An exodus of workers, many of whom were fired since Musk's acquisition has raised concerns about whether Twitter can sustain its operations and regulate its content.