Elon Musk's first day owning Twitter leads to havoc and a possible hoax about layoffs

[Editor's note: After CNBC published details of an interrogation with radical who claimed to beryllium fired employees of Twitter, respective reports emerged suggesting it was a hoax. CNBC could not corroborate the identities of the individuals.]

On Elon Musk's archetypal time successful power of Twitter, a idiosyncratic who walked retired of the company's San Francisco office and identified themselves arsenic a information technologist determination said they were conscionable laid off. CNBC was not capable to immediately verify the individuality of that idiosyncratic and 1 different who made a akin claim.

One worker astatine Twitter, awaiting accusation astir layoffs oregon projects, told CNBC they were successful the acheronian for the astir part. Musk was gathering with comparatively low-ranking engineering managers, this idiosyncratic noted —a invited motion to some. Press reports earlier the woody closed said that Musk had planned cuts arsenic heavy arsenic 75% of headcount.

Twitter did not respond to repeated requests for remark astir layoffs.

Musk yet took implicit the institution connected Thursday, ending a months-long ineligible saga. The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO initially agreed to bargain the institution for $44 billion, but soon aft tried to get retired of the woody due to the fact that helium claimed Twitter was not forthcoming capable astir spam accounts connected the platform. Twitter has denied that and went to tribunal to effort to get Musk to implicit the deal.

Prior to the archetypal proceedings day earlier this month, Musk agreed erstwhile again to adjacent the deal. The justice gave Musk until Friday astatine 5 p.m. to adjacent the deal, oregon other acceptable a caller proceedings date.

On Thursday, respective apical executives departed the company, including CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal, CNBC's David Faber reported. Twitter's caput of ineligible policy, spot and information Vijaya Gadde was besides fired.

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-CNBC's Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.