Elon Musk refuted a story that said Twitter only had a small number of “active, working employees,” saying the company currently has roughly 2,300 “active, working people.”
On Saturday, he responded to the @unusual whales Twitter account after it tweeted a CNBC story alleging that only 1,300 individuals were still employed full-time.
“The note is incorrect,” Musk tweeted.
“There are ~2300 active, working employees at Twitter,” he wrote. “There are still hundreds of employees working on trust & safety, along with several thousand contractors.”
According to CNBC, Twitter now has 1,300 active personnel, fewer than 550 of whom are “full-time engineers by title,” as opposed to more than 7,000 when Musk assumed leadership. The publication claimed their statistics were based on internal documents it had viewed.
More than 130 employees of Musk’s other companies were employed by Twitter, according to CNBC.
Musk also took issue with that figure, tweeting that “less than 10 people from my other companies are working at Twitter.”
After he purchased the social media startup on October 27, dozens of Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company personnel were hired.
The following day, Tesla employees visited Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters to speak with engineers there about their work and some technical facets of the platform, according to Insider.
The internet tycoon declared that he was working to “fix” Twitter. A Tesla shareholder who was offended by his attention to the business demanded that Musk find a new CEO for the electric vehicle manufacturer.
When Musk asked Twitter users last month if he should resign as CEO of Twitter, more than 57% of respondents said yes.
Musk has not yet revealed who will be “foolish enough” to succeed him as “Chief Twit.”
Outside of regular business hours, demands for response from Twitter and Musk were not immediately fulfilled.
Meanwhile, Musk discussed his tweets from August 2018 in which he stated he intended to take his vehicle firm private with “funding secured” during his testimony on Friday in a civil trial in San Francisco. On Monday, he is anticipated to continue his testimony.
