New York. Elon Musk has bought Twitter for $44 billion. Since then, he is taking big decisions every day. Earlier Musk had shown the way out to 3500 out of 7500 employees of Twitter. Now there is news that they have removed 4400 contract workers from Twitter. It is being told that after this decision, now about 1000 contract employees are left in Twitter. One such contract worker Melissa Ingel has disclosed this. Melissa was fired from her job last Saturday. According to Melissa, due to reduction in the number of employees, there may be a problem in running Twitter.
Getting word that a large number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others.
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 13, 2022
Twitter had earlier started e-mailing permanent employees on November 4. It is being told that Musk believes that contract workers are a big obstacle in the way of controlling hate posts etc. For this reason, the decision to lay off was taken. However, earlier when the permanent staff were removed, many of them were kept back as well. All of them were of senior position. The news of his return was given by Bloomberg. However, Elon Musk did not comment on this.
In the past, Elon Musk had also started a scheme of taking $ 8 every month for Twitter Bluetick in 5 countries, but during this time all the fake account holders had taken Bluetick. After which this scheme was put on hold. Elon Musk now says that he is changing the rules and methods for giving blue ticks. Let us tell you that before buying Twitter, Musk had alleged that there are a large number of fake accounts on this microblogging site. On this issue, he had a lot of argument with Parag Agarwal, who was the CEO then.