Twitter recently got acquired by billionaire Elon Musk, and the company then went about firing their employees by the thousands.
About 75% of Twitter’s workforce was laid off.
In an astonishing turn of events, Twitter is now asking dozens of employees that they fired to return to the company, saying that they were fired by “mistake”, according to Bloomberg.
The editor of Platformer, Casey Newton, addressed the news in a series of Tweets on his Twitter account.
Here is what he said
Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops!
From Twitter Slack: “sorry to @- everybody on the weekend but I wanted to pass along that we have the opportunity to ask folks that were left off if they will come back. I need to put together names and rationales by 4PM PST Sunday.
“I’ll do some research but if any of you who have been in contact with folks who might come back and who we think will help us, please nominate tomorrow before 4
“I think we might use some android and iOS help.”
Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 6, 2022