Twitter decimates its workforce

[Redaktion]

Insiders familiar with the matter revealed that at least 200 Twitter employees were laid off on Saturday night. Since the company had about 2,000 employees last week, this would account for about 10% of its remaining workforce. Back in October, when Elon Musk took over, about 7,500 people were working at Twitter.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Twitter-decimates-its-workforce.697593.0.html

[S.Yu]

Imagine if advertisers didn't pull their funding...Twitter was unimaginably bloated.

[Codrut Nistor]

In some countries where Facebook reigned supreme for over a decade, Twitter never managed to take off (I think Romania is a good example, but I am sure there are others). I think it will just become as irrelevant as MySpace in a year or so...

[S.Yu]

In some countries where Facebook reigned supreme for over a decade, Twitter never managed to take off (I think Romania is a good example, but I am sure there are others). I think it will just become as irrelevant as MySpace in a year or so...

That's totally fine, 140 characters is a strange way to communicate in the first place, low maintenance as it is, it's also primitive.

[Codrut Nistor]

Many used Twitter seeing it as a challenge to express some ideas in a laconic style, not anything else. Sure, they could have done this in a dedicated group on FB/Quora/anywhere else. Maybe lower the limit to just 64 characters. :)