Twitter is decreasing its variety of characters: the social media firm fired two executives Thursday, one whereas he was on paternity go away.

“Interrupting my paternity leave to share some final [Twitter]-related news: I’m leaving the company after over 7 years,” wrote Kayvon Beykpour, the corporate’s head of product. He joined the corporate in 2015 after it acquired Periscope, of which he’s a cofounder.

In a follow-up tweet, he revealed that the choice wasn’t his personal: CEO Parag Agrawal allegedly requested Beykpour to depart the corporate. Twitter gives up to 20 weeks of paternity go away for workers. Beykpour and his spouse welcomed a daughter on April 3, 2022. The firm didn’t reply to a request for remark.

Beykpour was not the one exec that obtained canned right this moment, as a number of experiences are additionally confirming that Bruce Falck was additionally let go after 5 years at Twitter. Falck (whose Twitter bio at present says “unemployed”) was the Revenue Product Lead, and expressed gratitude in his personal thread of tweets this afternoon.

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Beykpour went on to tweet that he was dissatisfied within the determination whereas being “insanely proud” of his workforce’s work and journey. He stated: “I’m proud that we changed the perception around Twitter’s pace of innovation, and proud that we shifted the culture internally to make bigger bets, move faster, and eliminate sacred cows.” It’s not completely clear why Beykpour was requested to depart, however Bloomberg reports that in an electronic mail to staff, Agrawal confirmed the departures and defined that the corporate didn’t hit the expansion targets it set for itself, and wanted to watch out about who’s on board.

It looks as if Twitter goes via a little bit of an identification disaster recently within the wake of all information of Elon Musk’s pending $44 billion acquisition. While it’s seemingly that this specific restructuring has nothing to do with the Musk takeover, it might be an indication of issues to return when the billionaire takes over the platform.