Twitter has reportedly laid off part of its infrastructure team

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Elon Musk has reportedly laid off several of Twitter’s workforce. In accordance , the company cut part of its infrastructure division on Friday night. The extent of the layoffs is unclear, but some engineers took to Twitter yesterday to say they were told by email that their contributions were no longer needed. The final cuts will follow reported on Tuesday that Musk had fired Nelson Abramson, Twitter’s head of infrastructure, among a handful of other senior employees at the company.

Twitter did not immediately respond to Engadget’s request for comment. The company has had no communications team since it began downsizing. Of The informationestimates, Twitter’s headcount has shrunk by about 75 percent since Musk’s . The social media site employed approximately 7,500 under . As of a week ago, Twitter’s internal Slack listed about 2,000 employees, according to the outlet. In November, Musk said what was left of the company’s workforce Twitter would not lay off any more workers. The promise came after the billionaire led to at least 1,200 redundancies.

Additional casualties among the team responsible for keeping Twitter up and running are likely to increase how unreliable the site could become in the near future. At the same time, the move that was already considered how much time Musk spent on Twitter. In accordance The informationMusk tapped Tesla engineer Sheen Austin to run the social media site’s infrastructure team after Abramson’s departure.

The layoffs also point to the apparently precarious financial position Twitter has found itself in since Musk’s takeover. In recent weeks, Elon and other executives reportedly discussed the potential consequences of denying severance pay to the thousands of people who were let go from the company in recent weeks. The company is also behind on rent for its San Francisco headquarters and network of global satellite offices.