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Robin Wheeler, head of advertising sales at Twitter, no longer works for the company, Platformer reports.
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Wheeler was fired a week after Elon Musk reportedly convinced her not to resign.
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The move comes as Twitter deals with massive layoffs.
About a week after Elon Musk persuaded Twitter’s head of advertising sales, Robin Wheeler, not to resign, he changed his mind and fired her, according to reporting by Platformer.
Sources told Casey Newton, which runs the Platformer newsletter, that Wheeler was fired on Friday. A source also told Insider Wheeler was fired, but declined to provide additional details.
Wheeler had tendered her resignation last Thursday along with several other senior leaders, but was persuaded to stay by the new owner, Bloomberg reported. Shortly after Newton broke the news of her firing on Friday, Wheeler posted on social media with what appeared to be confirmation of her departure.
“To the team and my clients… you were always my first and only priority,” Wheeler tweeted, adding a greeting emoji that has become a symbol of leaving the company.
Wheeler did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Since Elon Musk acquired the social media platform for $44 billion at the end of October, the company has drastically reduced its workforce of 7,500 employees. Musk followed through on his promise to investors to reduce headcount and quickly began layoffs following the completion of the deal. In the following weeks, more than 3,700 jobs were cut.
About 1,200 more employees resigned on Thursday, The New York Times reported. Payroll and other finance workers left en masse after Musk asked employees to commit to an “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0 with “long hours at high intensity” or to call it quits.
Since the acquisition, employees have also described chaotic working conditions, including laid-off employees being asked to return to the office, 84-hour weeks and some employees sleeping on the office floor. An employee was fired after a public disagreement with Musk on Twitter and contractors were unceremoniously informed that their work at the company had ended less than 24 hours in advance.
“It may not seem like a big deal, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to treat employees like this,” one employee told Insider’s Jyoti Mann.
Musk and Twitter representatives did not immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment.
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