Elon Musk fired Twitter's head of sales after she refused to sack more employees. He had previously begged her not to resign.
reported that some Twitter staff in the sales team found out over the weekend and on Monday that they had been sacked after they couldn't access Twitter's systems.to employees about his expectations for building"Twitter 2.0." If staff didn't sign up for"the new Twitter" by Thursday 5 p.m., they would receive three months of severance, Musk wrote in the email.
Twitter didn't immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment made outside of normal US operating hours. Wheeler hasn't yet replied to requests for comments made by Insider over the past week. Wheeler joined Twitter in 2012 as a senior director of sales, which involved managing relationships with some of the company's biggest clients such as Coca-Cola, Google, and Microsoft, according to her LinkedIn page. She became the head of ad sales in April this year.
, Twitter's former vice president of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region, replaced Wheeler at the weekend, per multiple Insider sources.Subscribe to push notifications
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