{"id":963593,"date":"2025-09-23T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963593"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:07:15","slug":"h-1b-visa-fee-shock-former-x-employee-credits-indian-chinese-engineers-for-twitter-survival-after-elon-musks-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/h-1b-visa-fee-shock-former-x-employee-credits-indian-chinese-engineers-for-twitter-survival-after-elon-musks-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa fee shock: Former X employee credits Indian, Chinese engineers for Twitter survival after Elon Musk\u2019s takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Crawford, a former executive of X (previously known as Twitter), took to social media on Monday to hail the contributions of H-1B engineers, mostly from India and China, in keeping &#8220;Twitter\/X&#8221; alive after the social media platform was taken over by tech billionaire Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford hit out at anti-immigrant rhetoric on X, saying the platform itself survived because of H-1B engineers, many from India and China, who worked tirelessly during the company&#8217;s takeover period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Crawford, a former executive of X (previously known as Twitter), took to social media on Monday to hail the contributions of H-1B engineers, mostly from India and China, in keeping &#8220;Twitter\/X&#8221; alive after the social media platform was taken over by tech billionaire Elon Musk. Crawford hit out at anti-immigrant rhetoric on X, saying the platform itself survived because of H-1B engineers, many from India and China, who worked tirelessly during the company&#8217;s takeover period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}