Elon Musk has stressed he had "no choice" but to fire 3,700 Twitter employees in email, including a pregnant mother.
The businessman, who completed the purchase of Twitter last week, said the social media brand is losing $4 million (£3.5 million) a day and insisted severance terms were generous to those employees laid off in a brutal worldwide cull.
Most were told the news via email after Mr Musk, 51, promised to the press he'll make the company profitable.
