Twitter India has decided to shut down its Mumbai and New Delhi offices and the three employees in India, who survived the mass layoff, have been asked to work from home.
However, the company will continue to operate its office in Bengaluru. This is because Twitter's Bengaluru office, which accommodates mostly engineers, reports directly to the US office and is not part of the India team, reported CNBC-TV18.
The three remaining staffers in Twitter’s India team include the country lead and two others covering the north and east, and south and west regions. This comes as Twitter, under new owner Elon Musk, fired more than 90 per cent of just over 200 of its staff in India last year. According to Musk, the layoff was necessary to get the company financially stable by late 2023.
However, India is considered a key growth market for tech giants and one of the world’s fastest-growing internet arenas.
Ever since Musk acquired Twitter in a $44-billion takeover last year, he has found himself in controversies.
Two days ago, reports emerged that Twitter had made some major algorithmic changes to ensure that people view his Tweets first. According to a report that appeared in Platformer, Musk had been worried that his engagement was not up to his expectation and that his tweet backing Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl had not done well as compared to that of US President Joe Biden.
The billionaire entrepreneur was also targeted after there were reports of Twitter outages on Wednesday. Though the details of the issue were unclear, many reported problems with the iOS app. Twitter later apologized for the snag, clearing the air. "Pardon the interruption!” Twitter’s support account tweeted Wednesday afternoon. "iOS users may have experienced some trouble using Twitter earlier. Things should be back to normal now."
User reports peaked at more than 8,700 on the online outage monitor website Downdetector.
The micro-blogging platform had suffered a major outage in December too, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access the platform or use its key features for several hours before services appeared to come back online.
