Twitter,Lee Do under the fresh tenure of Elon Musk, fired roughly half of its workforce last week. And now, the company is asking some of those employees to come back.
This is according to a new report by Bloomberg, which claims that Twitter is reaching out to "dozens of employees" to return to the social media company. The news of Twitter reaching out to employees who were fired was first reported by Casey Newton, who said Twitter was putting together a list of names to invite back.
Some of these people were reportedly laid off by mistake, while others were let go, but then Twitter's management realized these employees are actually needed to build the new features Musk wants.
A possible example of this is an exchange on Twitter on Nov. 1, where Musk tweeted about building a paywall bypass for some publishers. An ex-Twitter employee nicknamed SillyRobin replied that Musk has fired the team working on that particular feature, before listing more examples of Musk or his associates talking about new or upcoming features after firing the teams in charge of building them.
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Twitter laid off roughly 3,700 people last week, mostly via email and without prior warning, Bloomberg claims. Musk addressed the layoffs in a tweet, saying the reduction was necessary as the company was losing over $4 million dollars per day.
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Amidst the layoffs, Musk has also been very busy tweeting about upcoming features and improvements for Twitter. One of them, the rollout of blue checkmarks to Twitter Blue subscribers, has already been delayed until after the midterm elections Tuesday.
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