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Twitter lays off 10 per cent of current workforce - NYT

A view of the Twitter logo at its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California, November 18, 2022. [Reuters]

Twitter Inc has laid off at least 200 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, the New York Times reported late on Sunday, in its latest round of job cuts since Elon Musk took over the micro-blogging site last October.

The layoffs on Saturday night impacted product managers, data scientists and engineers who worked on machine learning and site reliability, which helps keep Twitter's various features online, the NYT report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

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