Elon Musk’s Twitter cull has continued as 50 employees have been laid off despite a promise to stop cuts. The most recent batch of redundancies is reportedly the eighth time the social media company has axed staff since Musk took the reins of Twitter in late October.
Twitter announced the cuts on Saturday across multiple engineering teams, US-based tech publication Information confirmed.
Cuts will stretch across those supporting advertising technology, the main Twitter app and those working on its technical infrastructure.
Other redundancies were made last week when Twitter axed employees from its ad sales team.
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Musk started his cost-cutting cutbacks in November when 3,700 people were fired after he acquired the social media platform for $44billion.
However, the most recent spate of redundancies appears to have gone against comments made by the Space X founder.
The 51-year-old not only claimed layoffs were over but said Twitter was also hiring, the Verge reported in late November.
Musk asked his followers: “Which is actually harder, defeating inflation or defeating the British?”
It followed an earlier Spider Man meme post which said: “Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) vs Irish Republican Army (IRA).”
The Inflation Reduction Act was introduced in 2022 to reduce the consumer price index by cutting the deficit, lowering prescription drug prices and investing into domestic energy production.
The federal law was passed by Congress and signed off by President Joe Biden on August 16 last year.
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