Jan 21 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc has about 2,300 lively staff, Elon Musk stated in a Tweet on Saturday.
CNBC on Friday reported that Twitter’s full-time headcount has lowered to about 1,300 lively, working staff, together with fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title.
About 75 of the corporate’s 1,300 staff are on depart together with about 40 engineers, CNBC stated, citing inside data.
“The be aware is inaccurate. There are about 2300 lively, working staff at Twitter,” billionaire Musk tweeted in a response to a tweet quoting CNBC.
“There are nonetheless lots of of staff engaged on belief & security, together with a number of thousand contractors,” Musk added.
Musk took over Twitter in October and swiftly moved by various 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.
Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru, Modifying by William Maclean
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