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Twitter lays off 40 employees — January 5, 2023

Twitter, a consumer company based in United States, laid off 40 employees on January 5, 2023. At the time, the company was at the Post-IPO stage. The layoff was reported by this source.

Company
Twitter
Employees laid off
40
Date
January 5, 2023
Industry
Consumer
Country
United States
Company stage
Post-IPO
Total raised (pre-layoff)
$12900M

Source: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musk-lays-off-twitter-engineers-working-on-advertising-as-ad-revenue-shrinks

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