Twitter has fired a product supervisor who as soon as slept within the firm’s places of work to satisfy deadlines set by Elon Musk. Esther Crawford led the social community’s Twitter Blue redesign following Musk’s $44 billion acquisition final yr. She was reportedly overseeing Twitter Funds lately. The corporate has additionally fired Martijn de Kuijper, the founding father of the e-newsletter platform Revue which it acquired in January 2021 and shut down final month. Total, Twitter laid off greater than 50 workers final week, Zoë Schiffer of Platformer reported.
Twitter laid off Esther Crawford and dozens extra workers
Elon Musk took over Twitter in late October final yr and instantly began firing workers. The corporate’s world workforce was diminished by greater than 50% in only a few weeks below the brand new possession. However, a couple of month later, Musk introduced an finish to the firing spree and mentioned that the social community will begin hiring quickly. Whereas we haven’t heard about new joiners since then, Twitter has continued to put off workers. There have been a number of rounds of layoffs since Musk made that assertion in November. A report final month mentioned that Twitter has laid off greater than 80 % of its world workforce since Musk’s acquisition.
Worse but, layoffs nonetheless haven’t ended. Twitter reportedly fired a number of dozen workers over the weekend. Schiffer claims that the quantity is “nicely above 50”. The most recent spherical of layoffs has hit a number of departments throughout the firm, together with engineering. Esther Crawford is among the many most notable departures. She was one of many few who accepted Musk’s “hardcore” work tradition as a part of “Twitter 2.0”. Only a few days after the acquisition, Crawford shared an image of herself sleeping in her Twitter workplace. “When your group is pushing around the clock to make deadlines typically you sleep the place you're employed,” she mentioned.
When your group is pushing around the clock to make deadlines typically you #SleepWhereYouWork https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD
— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022
Quick ahead to right now, Twitter has fired her. Crawford is happy with what she achieved, although. “I’m deeply happy with the group for constructing by a lot noise & chaos,” she lately tweeted confirming her departure from Twitter. Ella Irwin, the corporate’s present head of Belief and Security, responded saying: “Thanks for working so arduous to assist lay the muse for Twitter 2.0 Esther. You'll be missed.”
Twitter fires Revue founder after shutting down the e-newsletter platform
Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper is one other distinguished Twitter worker affected by the most recent layoffs. The social community employed Martijn as a part of its Revue acquisition a few years again. However, the platform didn’t take off as the corporate hoped for. Twitter finally pulled the plug on it final month. It has now let go of Revue’s founder as nicely. “Waking as much as discover I’ve been locked out of my electronic mail. Seems to be like I’m let go. Now my Revue journey is basically over,” Martijn lately tweeted. At this fee, we gained’t be shocked if Twitter lays off extra workers within the coming weeks. We are going to preserve you posted.