Twitter laid off another 200 employees on Saturday night, the New York Times reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. That’s equal to about 10% of the roughly 2,000 people who remain at the company, down from about 7,500 when billionaire Elon Musk acquired the social media platform in October. The cuts affected product managers, data scientists and engineers who worked on machine learning and site reliability, roles that help keep the company’s various features online. The monetization infrastructure team, which maintains the services that make money for Twitter, was cut to fewer than eight people from 30, one of the people said. The cuts included the founders of small tech companies that Twitter had acquired, including Esther Crawford, founder of Squad, a screen sharing and video chat app; and Haraldur Thorliefsson, who founded the design studio Ueno.
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