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Lawyer suing Twitter over layoffs says Elon Musk trying to comply

Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan said she "will be monitoring the situation" at Twitter to ensure employees receive appropriate notice and compensation.

Twitter lays off staff as Musk blames activists for massive ad revenue drop

Tweets by the company staff said teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and machine learning ethics were among those gutted, as were some product and engineering teams

Twitter layoffs likely set back the company's recent diversity gains

The firings of about half of the staff on Friday also may hit hard: The leaders of several of Twitter's diversity-focused groups were part of the job cuts, according to people familiar with the matter

Elon Musk defends layoffs, says Twitter losing over $4 million a day

Twitter employees were notified in an email that the layoffs were set to begin. Musk is expected to cut roughly half of Twitter's roughly 7,500-person workforce.

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General Mills to Mondelez, top Twitter advertisers to hit the pause button

Some advertisers are concerned that Musk could scale back content moderation, which they worry would lead to an increase in objectionable content on the platform

A curious deal, with or without the blue tick

Musk's Twitter deal is problematic in many ways, not least because there's no apparent synergy between an automobile company, an aerospace-cum-internet service provider, and a social media platform

Twitter fires majority of employees in India as part of global layoffs

The lay-offs in India were across segments such as policy, communication, engineering and development, said sources in the know

The Chief Twit takes over, but why should any of us care?

There's nothing in this deal to cause anyone who believed the world's richest man was an untalented amateur to change their mind

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Black Friday for Twitter employees as Elon Musk begins en masse layoffs

Twitter starts laying off employees in India as part of global job cuts

Twitter has started laying off employees in India as part of a global job cut ordered by the social media platform's new owner Elon Musk to attain economies of scale and make the USD 44 billion acquisition viable. World's richest businessman Musk began his innings at Twitter last week by firing the CEO Parag Agrawal as well as the CFO and some other top executives. This was followed by an exodus of top management. Musk has now started a massive exercise to downsize the company's global workforce. "Lay-off has started. Some of my colleagues have received email notification regarding this," a Twitter India employee told PTI on condition of anonymity. Another source said the lay-offs have affected a "significant chunk" of the India team. The full details of the job cuts were not immediately available. Twitter India did not respond to email queries. The US-based social media platform, in an internal email to employees earlier, had said, "In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy pa

Crypto wrap: Market remains largely resilient despite Fed's 75 bps hike

At 1 PM (IST) on Friday, Bitcoin was trading at $20,591, up 2 per cent in the past seven days, and Ethereum was at $1,579, showing a jump of 5 per cent in the same period

Twitter sued for mass layoffs by Elon Musk without enough notice

Twitter intends to start cutting staff Friday, the company said in an email to employees. Musk plans to get rid of half the workforce

Twitter back after suffering brief outage for some Indian users: Reports

Twitter on mobile was working fine but users on the desktop version had some troubles logging into the platform

Twitter down for some users across globe, including India: Details here

The outage is limited to Twitter's website for PCs and not the app, according to outage-tracker Downdetector

Fear and anxiety rampant at Twitter India as Musk starts downsizing

People in the know described the mood within the India development centres and across all segments as "very fearful", with people not sure if they will have a job or not

'Return home': Twitter to start laying off employees today, shuts office

Twitter told its employees through an email that they would receive an alert on staff cuts on their official or personal IDs on Friday

Elon Musk to commence job cuts at Twitter today as advertisers hit pause

"In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday," Twitter management said in an email reviewed by Bloomberg

Elon Musk plans to eliminate 3,700 jobs at Twitter to cut costs: Reports

Musk also intends to reverse the company's existing work-from-anywhere policy, asking remaining employees to report to offices -- though some exceptions could be made, the people said