Elon Musk tweeted: ‘Hope you had a good Sunday’ after laying off 200 Twitter employees

Elon Musk posted an encouraging tweet wishing his followers a “Happy Sunday” just a day after about 200 Twitter employees learned they had lost their jobs.

“Hope you have a good Sunday,” the Twitter owner wrote. “The first day of the rest of your life.”

Musk’s tweet coincided with news that 10% of the remaining Twitter workforce had been laid off, including Esther Crawford, a loyal executive who bought into her new boss’s “extremely hardcore” job.

Crawford is known to have been photographed sleeping on the floor of her corporate office during the early days of Musk’s tenure with the San Francisco company.

She managed to win Musk’s trust – a rarity for a Twitter manager, a holdover from the old regime.

Crawford, who was put in charge of Twitter Blue’s subscription service, was one of dozens of engineers and team managers who learned they were fired after attempts to log into their corporate computer systems failed, according to tech news site The Information. .

A source familiar with the situation told The Information that Saturday’s layoffs were timed to prevent Twitter from paying those who want to cash in unrecorded capital in the company’s stock at its original selling price of $54.20.

Despite being ridiculed as a “sycophant” by Twitter users who thought her loyalty to Musk was in vain, Crawford was brash and unapologetically for “going all in” for her now former boss.


Elon Musk fired 10% of Twitter employees over the weekend.
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Esther Crawford, who led subscription service Twitter Blue, was one of 200 people laid off over the weekend.
Esther Crawford, who led subscription service Twitter Blue, was one of 200 people laid off over the weekend.
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Esther Crawford has gone viral for a photo of her sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor of her corporate office.
Esther Crawford has gone viral for a photo of her sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor of her corporate office.
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“The worst thing you could do watching me go all-in on Twitter 2.0 is that my optimism or hard work was a mistake,” Crawford wrote.

“Those who scoff and scoff are necessarily on the sidelines, not in the arena,” she said, referring to a famous quote by Theodore Roosevelt.

“I’m very proud of the team that got through all the noise and chaos.”

Martin de Kuiper, a senior product manager from Holland, tweeted that he, too, learned of his dismissal when he was unable to log into his corporate computer system.

“When I woke up, I found that my email was blocked. Looks like they let me go,” tweeted de Kuyper, who founded the information platform Revue, which was later bought by Twitter.

Since completing the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last fall, Musk has cut the company’s more than 7,000 staff by a mind-boggling 70%.

As of Monday, the company had about 2,000 employees.

Twitter has found itself in dire financial straits as ad revenue has plummeted in the weeks and months since Musk took over the company.

Earlier this month, Musk said his layoffs and company restructuring “saved it from bankruptcy.”

“Twitter is still in trouble but is aiming to break even now if we continue like this. Public support is greatly appreciated!” Musk tweeted to his 130 million followers. He said the three months he owned the company were “extremely hard”.

Musk added that Twitter is still “definitely not financially sound,” but that it “tends to be” in the future.

With mail wires

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