major cost-cutting move by new owner Elon Musk, Twitter has notified employees that there will

and that they’ll be notified by email about whether they will continue to have a job

email did not indicate how big the cutbacks would be

been planning to axe about 50% of the staff, or around 3,700 of Twitter’s 7,500 employees, according

sent to employees Thursday was signed only “Twitter

effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process

“the nature of our distributed workforce and our desire to inform impacted individuals as quickly

Friday about whether they’ve been pink-slipped or whether they will continue to be employed,

help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data,” the

a six-month back-and-forth during which the world’s richest person tried to back out of the