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Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world

and beyond. And we are going to do this episode, emergency style, just going to throw it right up on the feed.

No music because we have some serious breaking news. There's been serious layoffs at Twitter.

And I thought you might want to hear from someone who's been inside the company and can share a little bit about their perspective about what it's been like, what it means, and where Twitter and the employees go from here.

So joining us today is Simon Balmain.

He was a former senior community manager at Twitter.

One of the many employees tweeting about his departure.

It's been very interesting to watch it play out in public. And his tweet caught my eye,

and he's graciously appeared to come and talk us through. What's happened? Simon, welcome to the show.

You're welcome. Thank you for having me. So where are you based?

So I'm in England. I live in Birmingham, which is in the middle of the country, just a couple of hours north

of London.

So kind of between working from home here in Birmingham and going into the London office

occasionally.

Yeah.

And now can you share a little bit about how you seem to be fairly early?

Because on Thursday, Twitter had announced that it was going to do these layoffs.

And then you tweeted pretty soon afterwards.

So how did you find out?

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