Elon Musk announces news on Twitter. For now, he got rid of more moderators

Over the Bloomberg weekend, Twitter laid off another group of senior platform employees at its offices in Dublin and Singapore. According to the agency’s informants, at least twelve people were released.

Elon Musk fired Twitter moderators again

Among the fired employees are recently hired Head of Site Integrity for Asia Pacific and Senior Director of Revenue Policy. The cuts were made late Friday evening. Most of those made redundant worked in teams dealing with global content moderation and combating hate speech. Bloomberg reminds that these are further dismissals in the already weakened teams of moderators.

In early November, just after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk threw 3.7 thousand from the platform. people, i.e. half of all employees of the company. Hundreds more – due to the rapid changes in company policy introduced by the new boss – resigned from their jobs. It is estimated that around 5,000 people have left Twitter to this day. employees (from approx. 7.5 thousand at the time of the acquisition).

Elon Musk announces a novelty. There will also be a change not seen for years

Elon Musk also constantly makes minor changes to how Twitter works. Over the weekend, he announced that by the end of this week there will be a function to quickly switch between recommended and followed tweets (by swiping right or left). A week later, a quick button for adding tweets to bookmarks is to appear. The billionaire announced that these changes are the first part of a wider Twitter user interface refresh.

However, the biggest change in Twitter functionality in years is planned for early February. The platform is to extend the maximum number of characters for each tweet from 280 to as many as 4,000 characters (until November 2017, 140 characters were available). This is to allow you to express your thoughts more freely. According to Musk, the change will come into effect in early February.