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Twitter Cuts Senior Leaders in Sweeping Weekend Layoffs

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Erin Woo
· · Source: The Information

Twitter laid off dozens of employees, including senior leaders, across the engineering and product divisions on Saturday night, in one of the largest rounds of cuts since Elon Musk took over the company last October. The extent of the cuts suggest that Musk has failed to reverse the steep decline in revenue that has occurred since his takeover. Advertisers have left the platform in droves...

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