Twitter’s Job Cuts Begin; Musk Decries ‘Massive’ Sales Drop
- Workers checked personal emails to see if they’d been fired
- Social network’s new owner put focus on new revenue sources
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The emails started arriving in Twitter Inc. employees’ personal inboxes in the early morning hours Friday: “Today is your last working day at the company,” the message read.
As people frantically refreshed their work and personal accounts to learn their fate, new owner Elon Musk sought to defend his decision to terminate thousands of jobs. He said the company had experienced a “massive drop in revenue” due to a flight of advertisers from the social network.