Elon Musk said in a post on Twitter on Saturday that Twitter, Inc. has about 2,300 active employees.
CNBC on Friday reported that Twitter’s full-time headcount has reduced to about 1,300 active, working employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title.
About 75 of the company’s 1,300 employees are on leave, including about 40 engineers, CNBC said, citing internal records.
“The note is incorrect. There are ~2300 active, working employees at Twitter,” Musk responded in a Twitter post that quoted CNBC.
“There are still hundreds of employees working on trust & safety, along with several thousand contractors,” he added.
CNBC also reported that more than 130 people from Musk’s other businesses worked at Twitter….