Twitter lays off more employees from sales team: report

Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform Twitter on Friday laid off ad sales employees in a fresh round of layoffs, news website The Information reported.

The number of job cuts, however, is not known, as per the report, which added that the social media company had about 800 sales and marketing employees as of last month.

Twitter had in November last year reduced staff from its sales team.

Just days ago, the social media platform shut its offices in New Delhi and Mumbai and asked its staff to work from home. It continues to operate from its office in Bengaluru which houses engineers.

The move is reportedly part of the company’s efforts to cut costs and get the struggling microblogging service in the black.

Twitter had sacked over 90% of its over 200 staff in India last year.

Last month, the microblogging platform announced a dozen more job cuts in Dublin and Singapore offices as part of broader cost-saving measures.

The company laid off around 3,500 employees late last year just after Musk took over the platform in a $44-billion deal. He also rolled out multiple product and organisational changes following the takeover.

Musk said last week that he anticipates finding a CEO for Twitter “probably toward the end of this year.”

Speaking via a video call at the World Government Summit in Dubai, he said making sure the platform can function remained the most important thing for him.

“I think I need to stabilize the organization and make sure it’s in a financial healthy place,” he said when asked about when he’d name a CEO.