Twitter shares plunged 27 percent in the past two weeks as potential acquirers withdrew their interest. On Friday, Salesforce.com became the latest to drop out.

While investors are hurting, the slide is a bigger problem for employees.

That's because Twitter has been highly reliant on stock as a form of employee pay. Twitter's stock-based compensation expense in 2015 of $682.1 million represented 18 percent of revenue, more than any other U.S. technology company with a market value of at least $1 billion, according to FactSet. Read More