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(Reuters) – Twitter Inc (NYSE:) has about 2,300 energetic workers, Elon Musk stated in a Tweet on Saturday.
CNBC on Friday reported that Twitter’s full-time headcount has diminished to about 1,300 energetic, working workers, together with fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title.
About 75 of the corporate’s 1,300 workers are on depart together with about 40 engineers, CNBC stated, citing inner information.
“The word is wrong. There are about 2300 energetic, working workers at Twitter,” billionaire Musk tweeted in a response to a tweet quoting CNBC.
“There are nonetheless tons of of workers engaged on belief & security, together with a number of thousand contractors,” Musk added.
Musk took over Twitter in October and swiftly moved via quite a few product and organizational modifications. The corporate rolled out Twitter-verified Blue check-mark as a paid service and in addition laid off about 50% workers.
