Elon Musk fires 5,500 contract employees without any notice. The details

The layoffs and structural changes are still on at Twitter, and its new boss Elon Musk has now fired around 4,400 to 5,500 contract employees without any prior notice

What happened: According to Platformer's Casey Newton, most contract employees didn't receive any notice that they've been terminated. CNBC also confirmed the news that Twitter has terminated a large number of its contract workers without giving the full-time employees who worked with them any advanced notice.

Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.

People inside are stunned.

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 13, 2022

No notice: The reports said that the employees found that they had been fired only after losing access to the company's email and internal communications systems. The latest round of layoffs impacted employees working in content moderation, real estate, marketing, engineering and other departments.

Twitter layoffs: Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, half of the social media company's workforce has been fired. Earlier Musk had Musk removed around 3,700 employees from Twitter offices across the globe and reportedly fired 90 per cent of the company's employees in India.

He has got rid of most top-level executives, all the board of directors and the entire communication team.

Twitter turmoil: Twitter has been struggling with impostor accounts after it announced that anyone who pays $8 can get verified blue check marks. Now the company has suspended the $8 subscription program it launched earlier this week.

Musk, who acquired Twitter last month for $44 billion, is facing a slew of challenges as top advertisers have pulled back from the platform amid concern over the company's ability to tackle impostors and hate speech, Bloomberg News reported.