Elon Musk is understood to have fired more Twitter employees again this Saturday night in a bid to rein in costs at his social networking company, in what will be the latest wave of layoffs.。It is not clear exactly how many employees have been laid off, with people familiar with the matter believing dozens of people have been affected, but media reports say more than 50 people have been fired.。

The latest round of layoffs has laid off at least 200 employees, or about 10 percent of the workforce, according to people familiar with the matter.。Twitter's layoffs will affect multiple engineering teams, including advertising technology, major applications, and the infrastructure that keeps systems up and running.。The person added that some employees only learned of their dismissal via email notification on Saturday night, while others said on Twitter that they learned of their dismissal because they could not log into Twitter's internal systems.。

Platformer's Zoe Schiffer said in a tweet Sunday that it included Esther Crawford, one of the executives who once ran the site's subscription service, Twitter Blue.。Several startup founders who have joined Twitter through acquisitions in the past few years said on Twitter Sunday that they too have been axed, including the founders of newsletter startup Revue and design firm Ueno.。

The layoffs are known to be the eighth round of layoffs since Musk took over Twitter at the end of October.。Shortly after Musk's $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, he announced more than 3,700 layoffs, or half of the company's total workforce at the time.。In order to continue to reduce costs, so far, Twitter has laid off more than 70% of the staff, the total number of employees from the original 7000 people to now more than 2000 people。