Miffed With Agrawal, Musk Fires 90% Of Twitter India's Staffers

Twitter Inc. fired more than 90% of its staff in India over the weekend -- part of global reductions by new owner Elon Musk -- severely depleting its engineering and product staff in a potential growth market, Sankalp Phartiyal reported for Bloomberg News.

Photo Insert: The ousters of more than 200 employees come hard after Twitter’s ex-CEO, Parag Agrawal, also an Indian, was kicked out without warning and escorted out of the premises of Twitter’s headquarters in California.

The ousters of more than 200 employees come hard after Twitter’s ex-CEO, also an Indian, was kicked out without warning and escorted out of the premises of Twitter’s headquarters in California.

The company employed just over 200 people in India, and the cuts left it with just about a dozen staff, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Bloomberg reported that India is a potential growth market for Twitter and by crippling it, Musk naturally fostered an anti-Twitter sentiment in a market with more than 1-billion potential customers. More than 70% of those kicked out belonged to the product and engineering teams of Twitter.

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