Celebrity attorney Alex Spiro, Musk’s longtime legal representative, led the talks about the job cuts, according to the report.
Twitter had more than 7,000 employees at the end of 2021, according to a filing with regulators, with a quarter of the workforce equaling nearly 2,000 employees.
Musk denied a New York Times report that Twitter employees were being fired on a date before November 1 to avoid stock grants expiring that day.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
Musk on Thursday fired Parag Agrawal, Twitter CEO, Ned Segal, chief financial officer, and Vijaya Gadde, chief legal and policy officer, at the conclusion of the $44 billion saga over his purchase of the social media platform. dollars and lasted for six months, sources told Reuters.