After Twitter’s acquisition last year, Elon Musk started laying off most of the company’s employees. Before Musk’s takeover, the micro-blogging site employed around 7,500 people, however, it has been reduced to 2,300 people.
Just when everyone thought the nightmare was over, Tesla’s founder and CEO announced a fresh round of layoffs, slashing 10 per cent of its current workforce.
According to The New York Times, at least 200 employees were affected, primarily product managers, data scientists, and engineers who worked on machine learning and site reliability, which helps keep Twitter’s various features online.
Among those affected by layoffs are some founders of small tech startups that Twitter acquired over the years.
Twitter sacked Revue’s founder
Martijn de Kuijper, the founder of Revue, a Utrecht-based email newsletter service, is one of the victims. In January 2021, Twitter acquired Revue as a part of an effort to expand its business.
Founded by Martijn de Kuijper and Mohamed El Maslouhi in 2015, Revue makes it easy for writers and publishers to send free and paid editorial newsletters.
Post-acquisition, Kuijper worked in the Product team for Twitter for over two years. However, he has been laid off without any prior warning.
After discovering about his layoff, Kuijper took to Twitter to announce his ouster, “Waking up to find I’ve been locked out of my email. Looks like I’m let go. Now my Revue journey is really over.”
The layoff comes out of nowhere since Musk informed his employees in an internal meeting that there were no more plans for staff reductions in late November.
