Twitter laid off dozens of employees in its trust and safety teams across Singapore and Dublin offices in January. Elon Musk-headed social media platform laid off staff that handles global content moderation and regulates content pertaining to hate speech-related harassment, according to a Bloomberg report.
Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, the head of site integrity for Twitter’s Asia- Pacific region and Analuisa Dominguez, senior director of revenue policy are among the key persons to be handed the pink slip by Musk, as job cuts across the troubled social media company continue.
The report further added that roles pertaining to policy on misinformation, global appeals and state media were also eliminated in the recent round of firings.
Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety confirmed the development to Bloomberg, stating that several members of the staff were let go in the latest round of eliminations. She added that job cuts were made in teams that did not get enough “volumes”; however, new employees were added to Twitter’s appeals department and the platform will continue to have a head of revenue policy and head of trust and safety for the head of Asia Pacific region.
After buying Twitter in a USD 44 billion deal, partly funded by debt worth USD 13 billion last year, Musk downsized the company’s staff from 7,500 to 2,500. He said the company was losing USD 4 million a day as of November 2022.
New changes to Twitter interface
Twitter CEO Musk on Sunday announced changes will soon be made to the Twitter interface and the feature to enable long-form text will also be added.
“Easy swipe right/left to move between recommended vs followed tweets rolls out later this week. First part of a much larger UI overhaul. Bookmark button (de facto silent like) on Tweet details rolls out a week later. Long form tweets early Feb,” he tweeted.
Musk has made many changes over the course of the last few months at the platform and promised several others in a bid to make the company profitable.
Speaking on Twitter Spaces recently, he compared Twitter to an aircraft headed towards at a high speed, with engines on fire and controls not working.
