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Twitter cuts workforce in search of profit
Twitter is one of social media’s definitive institutions — crucial to all kinds of discourse in the US and around the world, but it's not making a profit. Today it announced its quarterly earnings — along with a staff layoff of nine percent. Sarah Frier, tech reporter for Bloomberg in San Francisco, broke the story .
By Warren Olney • • 6m ListenTwitter is one of social media’s definitive institutions — crucial to all kinds of discourse in the US and around the world, but it's not making a profit. Today it announced its quarterly earnings — along with a staff layoff of nine percent. Sarah Frier, tech reporter for Bloomberg in San Francisco, broke the story.
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
KCRW Staff
KCRW Staff
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Evan George
Director of Content, News
Sarah Frier
Bloomberg News
The full episode
1 of 3The science of polls and the art of spinning them- 1:54Twitter cuts workforce in search of profitYou’re reading this
- 8:55Confused by political polling? You're not alone.
- 43:15Behind the political success of Iceland's 'Pirate Party'