Elon Musk says Twitter now has 2,300 'active, working employees' – and just 10 are from his other companies
"There are ~2300 active, working employees at Twitter," he wrote."There are still hundreds of employees working on trust & safety, along with several thousand contractors."
CNBC reported on Friday that Twitter's headcount was down to 1,300 active employees, including"fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title," compared with more than 7,000 before Musk took control. The outlet said its figures were based on internal records it had seen.Musk also took issue with that figure, tweeting that"less than 10 people from my other companies are working at Twitter."after he acquired the social media company on October 27.
The next day engineers from Tesla were at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters, meeting with Twitter engineers to ask about their work and some technical aspects of the platform,The tech mogul said he was on a trajectory to"fix" Twitter. His focus on the company has angered some Tesla shareholders, with one calling forLast month Musk polled Twitter users on whether he should step down as Twitter CEO, with more than 57% telling him to go.
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