Twitter CEO Elon Musk has a message for workers: Loyalty means nothing. Over the weekend, Musk laid off greater than 50 staff on the social media firm, together with one in every of his most vocal supporters, product head Esther Crawford.
Crawford famously made headlines again in November when she quote-tweeted a photograph of herself sleeping on the workplace days after Musk took over Twitter so as to meet his loopy deadlines. Regardless of criticism from of us who stated Musk was making Twitter staff work around the clock to show themselves, Crawford took it in stride, stating on the time that “doing laborious issues requires sacrifice.” The Platformer publication first reported Crawford’s dismissal.
After Musk took over the corporate in late October, Crawford started to search for larger alternatives at Twitter, The Verge reported. She launched herself to the brand new CEO and pitched him new concepts on methods to enhance the corporate. Fairly quickly, Musk tasked her with relaunching Twitter’s Blue subscription product, which had a disastrous debut.
Crawford confirmed her departure from Twitter in a put up on Saturday night time.
“The worst take you might have from watching me go all-in on Twitter 2.0 is that my optimism or laborious work was a mistake,” she stated. “Those that jeer & mock are essentially on the sidelines and never within the enviornment. I’m deeply pleased with the workforce for constructing by means of a lot noise & chaos.”
Crawford wasn’t the one high-level worker laid off. Martijn de Kuijper, the founding father of Twitter’s axed publication platform, Revue, stated shortly after midnight on Sunday that he figured he was laid off when he bought locked out of his e mail.
“Waking as much as discover I’ve been locked out of my e mail. Seems like I’m let go. Now my Revue journey is actually over,” De Kuijper tweeted, including the saluting face emoji in style amongst Twitter staff leaving the corporate.
The Wall Avenue Journal reported that some staff appeared to have been laid off through e mail on Saturday, which knowledgeable them that their function had been eradicated after a wider overview.
“At present is your final working day on the firm,” the e-mail said, in keeping with the Journal.
Since he took over Twitter, Musk has carried out at the very least 4 rounds of layoffs, per The Verge, leaving the corporate with lower than 2,000 staff. Twitter had greater than 7,500 staff when the billionaire took over.
