It was discovered in an interview with Elon Mask that the number of Twitter employees has decreased sharply from 8000 to 1500, but it is also clear that Twitter is likely to succeed in making a profit soon



Twitter's Elon Mask CEO responded to the BBC's interview that Twitter has reduced the number of employees to 1,500 due to personnel reductions, revealing that it is approaching profitability.

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On April 12, 2023, local time, the BBC conducted an hour-long interview with Twitter's Mask CEO. The interviewer was BBC's James Clayton , and the interview was live-streamed on BBC and Twitter Spaces, attracting an audience of 3.3 million people. Before the interview, Mask CEO tweeted, ``When I said, ``BBC is coming to Twitter,'' the reporter really came,'' and the BBC interview was not scheduled in advance , but suddenly It suggests that it is set.




In an interview, Mask CEO reveals that the number of Twitter employees has drastically decreased from less than 8,000 to 1,500.

Immediately after the acquisition by Mask CEO, Twitter made a bold reduction in personnel for half of all employees , and it has become clear that a small reduction in personnel was implemented in February 2023.

More than 50 new Twitter staff will be fired, leaders of payment platform development and certified badge charging plans will also be fired - GIGAZINE



Twitter's repeated personnel cuts are believed to improve the company's profitability, but since Twitter experienced multiple outages after the large-scale layoffs, the company said, It has been often pointed out that there is a shortage of qualified engineers. According to Internet monitoring agency NetBlocks , the number of large-scale failures on Twitter since the beginning of 2023 is ``6''.

Failures occur all over the world including Japan on Twitter, some users can not update the timeline and display 'Welcome to Twitter' - GIGAZINE



In an interview, Musk acknowledged the existence of some glitches on Twitter, but said they didn't last very long. He continued, pointing out that Twitter had a negative cash flow of $ 3 billion (about 400 billion yen), and that it had to take drastic measures such as large-scale personnel reductions.

Continuing, Mask CEO said, ``If things go well, cash flow may be positive this quarter,'' and revealed that Twitter's management is about to turn profitable. In addition, Mask CEO reveals that Twitter currently has the highest number of users ever, and appeals that Twitter's operation since the acquisition is going well.

Since the acquisition of Twitter by Mask CEO, it has often been pointed out that advertisers are away from Twitter. About this, Mask CEO revealed that ``most of the causes are political,'' and that most advertisers are already returning. It has been pointed out that advertising revenue has declined sharply on Twitter, but there is also data thatTwitter Blue, which was released under the initiative of Mask CEO, earned more than 1.4 billion yen in three months .

More than half of Twitter's major advertisers stopped advertising, and advertising revenue plummeted-GIGAZINE



In addition, Mask CEO explained that the reason for completing Twitter's acquisition was ' because Twitter appealed to complete the acquisition .' In addition, he said he did not intend to sell Twitter for the same amount as when Mask CEO bought Twitter.

In addition, the interview also touched on Twitter as a company merging with a company called X, but Mask CEO only said, ``Yes, there should be something more,'' and did not mention the details. pattern. In addition, Mr. Mask said that he wants to create an application 'X' that can be anything like Tencent's WeChat as a development of X.

'Twitter' as a company disappears and is integrated into a company called 'X' - GIGAZINE



In addition, in the BBC interview, Mask CEO is also discussing various topics such as American politics and banning the use of TikTok .

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