A Twitter employee quit his job to try to save his colleagues

• Andrew Haigh said he resigned from his job at Twitter to try to help coworkers keep their own jobs.
• The former curation lead said it "wasn't an easy decision" to quit but that it was "the right one."

A Twitter employee said he quit a week ago to try to help save his colleagues from being fired in Elon Musk's mass layoffs.

Andrew Haigh tweeted on Friday that he resigned after more than six years at Twitter so that his coworkers might be able to "keep their jobs."

"This wasn't an easy decision but it was the right one at the right time. I left on my own terms and I hoped that in doing so, it meant others might get an opportunity to keep their jobs," he wrote.

Haigh joined the company in 2016 and was most recently a senior curation lead based in London, according to his LinkedIn page.

He said he will be "supporting Tweeps" over the next few weeks and that he wanted to help them as he cared "deeply" about his former colleagues. He also wrote that he plans to take a break from both Twitter and the news cycle.

"I'm hoping to use this time to meet with and learn from people who I respect across journalism and tech before looking for my next challenge somewhere where I can use the skills and knowledge I've gained at Twitter to have a meaningful impact on the world," Haigh wrote.

Twitter laid off thousands of employees on Friday, a week after Elon Musk completed his $44 billion takeover.

Musk tweeted on Friday that he had "no choice" as Twitter was losing more than $4 million a day.

Twitter and Haigh didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.