Twitter planning layoffs: report
October 10, 2015  10:02
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Twitter will lay off employees next week as freshly-returned chief Jack Dorsey pushes for a leaner operation focused on winning users, tech news website Re/code has reported.

Layoffs will be spread across the entire San Francisco-based company and will likely include engineers, which account for about half of Twitter's approximately 4,200 employees, according to Re/code.

The job cuts reportedly come as engineering teams are being reorganised at the one-to-many messaging service. 

Re/code cited unnamed sources in its yesterday's report, while Twitter declined to comment on what it referred to as rumour and speculation. 

Twitter is betting that the second coming of co-founder Dorsey as chief executive will bring blockbuster growth that has eluded its grasp and disappointed investors. 

Dorsey, who had been interim CEO since June, returned permanently to the helm last week while also remaining chief executive of Square, the digital payments firm he founded. 

He is returning to Twitter as the company struggles to expand its user base above 300 million people. 
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