Elon Musk: Elon Musk says Twitter has a headcount of about 2,300

Twitter Inc has about 2,300 lively workers, Elon Musk mentioned in a Tweet on Saturday.

CNBC on Friday reported that Twitter’s full-time headcount has decreased to about 1,300 lively, 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 mentioned, citing inside data.

“The observe is wrong. There are about 2300 lively, working workers at Twitter,” billionaire Musk tweeted in a response to a tweet quoting CNBC.

“There are nonetheless a whole bunch of workers engaged on belief & security, together with a number of thousand contractors,” Musk added.

Musk took over Twitter in October and swiftly moved by quite a lot of product and organizational adjustments. The corporate rolled out Twitter-verified Blue check-mark as a paid service and in addition laid off about 50% employees.

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