The number of sacked Twitter staff launching legal action against the company “goes up daily”, according to a lawyer representing some of them.
Lisa Bloom has told the BBC she has already taken on the cases of about 100 former employees but the number is rising.
One of her clients, Amir Shevat, told the BBC that Twitter boss Elon Musk had “failed” in his leadership of the firm.
Twitter did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment.
In an interview with BBC World Service programme Tech Tent, Mr Shevat recalled the turbulent time at Twitter after Mr Musk went through with his $44bn (£39.3bn) takeover in November.
Mr Shevat was the head of product for the Twitter developer platform, in charge of about 150 staff.
He said almost his entire team was laid off over the course of a night.
“We got an email saying there was some sort of restructuring and then what happened is, I was communicating with my team, and one after the other they were telling me that their computer got ‘bricked’,” he said.
“Bricked is the process of turning a computer into something that looks more like a brick – so you can’t log in, you can’t do anything with that computer.”
He added: “It was a very, very hard experience which left a lot of the engineers, who cared deeply about the company, very discouraged.”
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