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Twitter slashes 80% of contractors; tech company layoffs surge

Twitter has laid off 4,400 of its 5,500 contractors, CNBC reported [1]. The move follows the layoffs of approximately half of its internal staff. Meanwhile, Amazon is poised to lay off some 10,000 tech workers, The New York Times [2] reported. According to a report from Quartz [3], counting Twitter and Amazon, major tech companies will have laid off 33,000 workers over the last month.

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