Twitter employees sue over Elon Musk's mass layoffs | DW News

Twitter employees are suing the company in a class action lawsuit over mass layoffs expected to be carried out on Friday.
The company, recently acquired by the world's richest man Elon Musk, told employees they would be notified about terminations via email. Twitter offices are closed for the day and badge access removed. While there has been no official announcement specifying the number of layoffs, US media reports say half of Twitter's 7,500 workforce could be let go.

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[theobserver]

I tried Twitter for a short while. I can't figure out what people like about it. Strange world.

[Anton-jitd]

He paid way too much for it. It was over valued.

[ginofoogle]

people who sold twitter are laughing all the way to the bank..

[bryanmitchell]

Never understood the appeal of twitter.

[Charles-_-]

Why does a “free” speech social media app need 7K employees anyway?

[aerohk]

To be fair, my friend who worked at Twitter worked just couple hours per week, and sometime he gets Friday off.

[masterstealth]

Glad I can always rely on DW for clear, concise, and detailed reporting. Better than US media by far!

[langyu]

Elon made this layoffs a worldwide eye-catching drama show 😂

[Slayceos]

45 years old here, been into computers since I was a child been on the internet since It came out never had a Twitter account once

[brasssnacks]

The engineers land rockets vertically. He just owns their labour.

[BitsBytesBobs]

Gen Z'ers working at Twitter having a meltdown. Hysterical.

[reecethe]

my dude said he'd buy it as a joke but had to follow through, now he's screwed 😂😂😂

[chowfun]

I really hope this is the beginning of the end for Twitter.

[andrewareva]

The one thing he didn't mention is that the loans Elon took out to buy Twitter has $1B interest per year.

[mrchapman]

this gives me the giggles So the highly prestigious blue check mark is valued at 8 bucks....that's about right

[gagaplex]

"Less" ads if you pay 8 Dollars a month? "Less"?!

[Rakibrown]

simple news, no leaning either way. It's how news should be and yet it's so rare that it gets noticed and deserves a comment.

[polpol]

now he's already asking some fired employees to come back.. what a chaoss lmaoo

[mutkaluikkunen]

I have a Twitter account which I used to use maybe.. two times a year, until they started requiring a phone number for confirmation. As there's no way in he** I'd give them my number, I no longer have an account.
I really haven't realized why people use Twitter anyway or why someone would actually pay to use it.

[TotesMAGoats]

Bro. They act like people don't get laid off when a new CEO is in town. They bring in their people