Twitter staff reduced by 80% after Elon Musk’s arrival

CNBC, citing internal Twitter documents, reported that about 80% of employees left the company after Elon Musk joined the company. Twitter currently employs 1,300 people. At the same time, about 75 of them are currently on vacation, including 40 engineers. So the number of active employees is even lower.

According to internal documents, Twitter has about 1,400 non-working employees who are still being paid. According to CNBC, many of them wrote resignations after Musk’s ultimatum, when in a corporate newsletter he gave employees a choice — to work hard and almost non-stop or to quit.

Such a serious reduction in staff (the company employed about 7,500 people before Musk’s arrival) could affect the quality of the social network’s performance. According to an engineer who resigned from the company and wished to remain incognito, Twitter’s code base is huge, and to keep different parts of the social network working, knowledge of different platforms and programming languages is required. Twitter has 550 engineers left, and their resources are simply not enough to implement everything Musk has planned.

As a reminder, Tesla CEO and part-time Twitter owner Elon Musk will be held accountable in court for his own tweets. The billionaire is accused of manipulating the stock market through his own Twitter posts.