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Twitter Co-Founder and Chairman and Square CEO Jack Dorsey speaks onstage during "From 7 Dwarves to 140 Characters" at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 9, 2014 in San Francisco, California.
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Twitter announced Tuesday that it’s laying off more than 300 employees, representing about 8% of the company’s workforce.

The move, expected after a Re/code report last week, comes shortly after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was named permanent CEO. Dorsey was previously serving as interim CEO after Twitter’s former chief executive, Dick Costolo, left in July.

In a letter to Twitter employees, Dorsey framed the layoffs as a means to refocus the company’s efforts. “The roadmap is also a plan to change how we work, and what we need to do that work,” he wrote.

Here’s Dorsey’s letter in full:

 

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