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Twitter will have big layoffs next week

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Jack Dorsey goes for a walk on the first day of the annual Allen and Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho July 8, 2015.  REUTERS/Mike Blake
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey  Thomson Reuters

Twitter is preparing for company-wide layoffs next week, according to a report in Recode, citing anonymous sources. 

The struggling Internet company is expected to cut staff across virtually all departments, Recode reports, though it said the exact number of layoffs was not clear. 

The layoffs would come just about a week after Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey was appointed permanent CEO promising big changes for the company. 

Twitter had 4,100 employees at the end of June. Twitter's engineering ranks, which make up roughly half the company's staff according to Recode, will likely be impacted.  

Dorsey, who has served as interim CEO since June, has been vocal about the need to shake things up at the company, as user growth and engagement has stalled and the company's stock has been battered.

During Twitter's second quarter conference call in June, Dorsey called the performance "unacceptable," and said he would "ensure more disciplined execution," among other things.

Twitter's ranks have already seen significant changes in recent months, with a number of executives and staffers heading for the exits. 

Earlier on Friday, Glenn Brown, who oversaw Twitter's video ad efforts announced he was leaving Twitter to join Betaworks, just a day after Twitter held a splashy event in New York to showcase its new video ad features. 

A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment. 

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Alexei Oreskovic is the Tech Features Editor for the Business section of Insider.  Based in San Francisco, Oreskovic has covered technology and business for more than 20 years at publications including TheStreet.com, the Industry Standard, and CNET. Before BI, he was a correspondent at Reuters for six years, where he was a finalist for the 2013 Gerald Loeb Award in the Breaking News category for coverage of the Facebook IPO.  As Insider's Tech Features Editor, Oreskovic has overseen groundbreaking investigative stories on Uber, Snapchat, Tesla, Facebook and Google. He was the editor on the Snapchat and Facebook stories that won the Sabew 2018 Larry Birger Young Business Journalist award for former BI reporter Alex Heath. Oreskovic has covered the booms and busts of the tech industry since the first dotcom bubble of the late 1990s, and has interviewed the industry's most important players including Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. He has made frequent guest appearances on TV and radio, including CNBC and BBC World News.  Disclosure: Oreskovic has a direct family member who owns shares in Compass.