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Twitter's gaming lead let go as Elon Musk begins mass layoffs


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Twitters social lead for gaming is the latest employee to be let go since Elon Musk took over.

The billionaire has swiftly made huge changes to the platform, like charging monthly for blue tick verification.

Now mass cuts are being made to staff.


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Shiraz, the former social lead for Twitter Gaming, shared the news with a video updating his profile bio.

cool, get do one of these finally earlier than I thought pic.twitter.com/V5yIe9KVrB

— shiraz 🫡 (@shiraz) November 4, 2022


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In a thread posted ahead of being let go, he wrote: “to all the Creators, Influencers, Athletes, Actors, Streamers, and Gamers Ive had the pleasure of speaking to on behalf of Twitter, its been an honour no matter what happens.

“The layoffs at Twitter have begun and tomorrow AM well find out who Elon keeping or not.

“I always tried to champion Creators and Gaming internally to the best of my ability no matter how small or big you were, yall were on a level footing to me and I did my best to treat yall as such.

“Ive been at Twitter 9 1/2 years so if its my time, it is what it is.”

to all the Creators, Influencers, Athletes, Actors, Streamers, and Gamers I’ve had the pleasure of speaking to on behalf of Twitter, it’s been an honor no matter what happens

The layoffs at Twitter have begun and tomorrow AM we’ll find out who Elon keeping or not

— shiraz 🫡 (@shiraz) November 4, 2022


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As Bloomberg reported earlier in the week, Musk plans to eliminate around half of Twitters workforce to cut costs.

Staff were notified today, as shared in viral tweets, of potential layoffs via an email to either their staff email address or personal email address.

Heres the first official communication from Twitters new leadership to its staff, a week after Musk took over: a fun game where you get to find out if youre laid off or not based by 9am tomorrow, based on whether the email pops up in your Twitter account or personal account. pic.twitter.com/tpJsAkiaHp

— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) November 4, 2022


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Users are also advised to set up two-factor verification to protect their account.

Just been advised by someone who works at twitter to set up two factor verification IMMEDIATELY if haven’t already done so. So, you know, if you haven’t – do.

— Emma Kennedy💙 (@EmmaKennedy) November 4, 2022


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