Twitter is parting ways with 4,400 contractors. Decisively, nothing is going well with the blue bird.
After the dismissal of 50% of the company’s employees, Elon Musk became interested in Twitter contract workers. According to several reports, including those from Platformer and Axios’ Casey Newton, the platform began to drastically reduce their numbers this weekend. After a period of uncertainty about the extent of these breaches of contract, Casey Newton puts the figure at around 4,400. The move is expected to have a significant impact on Twitter’s ability to moderate content and keep its platform running.
Twitter is parting ways with 4,400 contractors
Twitter also seemed to act without the slightest respect, without any warning to those who lost their jobs this weekend. Many found themselves no longer employed by the company when they discovered that they no longer had access to Twitter’s internal systems. “One of my contractors was deactivated without notice while making breaking changes to our child safety processes,”explained a manager at the company’s Slack, according to Casey Newton. Others learned about it by reading layoff reports. Some employees are now worried that they haven’t been paid for their last two weeks of work. After dismissal on November 4
Definitely, everything goes wrong with the blue bird
Twitter declined to respond to Engadget’s inquiries about this. During this recent massive reorganization, the company would have cut its entire communications department.
These contract breaches came after another week later, to put it mildly, added to Twitter. The company began rolling out its Twitter Blue subscription this Wednesday, with a review only to pause it less than two days later, the victim of a troll rampage. Elon Musk also reportedly told employees that Twitter was losing so much money that bankruptcy was “out of the question.”
Received word that a large number of Twitter contractors were fired this afternoon without notice, both in the US and abroad. The features affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others.
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 13, 2022