KARACHI: Twitter has fired more than 90 per cent of its staff in India over the weekend — part of global reductions by new owner Elon Musk — severely depleting its engineering and product staff in a potential growth market.
According to a report published in Bloomberg today, Twitter employed just over 200 people in India, and the cuts left it with just about a dozen staff, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.
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The report said that About 70 per cent of the jobs cut in India were from the product and engineering team which worked on a global mandate, one of the people said. Positions were also slashed across functions including marketing, public policy and corporate communication.
Globally, San Francisco, California-based Twitter reduced its headcount by about half or roughly 3,700 workers.
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