How does a 75% workforce cut even work logistically for a company not on its deathbed?
That can work for direct-to-consumer sales. It's unlikely to work for advertising sales.
> Cut support team by 90%, only highest tier gets support
Twitter has a support team? Not much, in my experience.
Most Twitter employees (like people everywhere) go there to earn a living and as long as employment conditions remain acceptable they'll sign whatever management ask them to.
In particular if it's a meaningless broad statement such as "commitment to free speech and 1st amendment".
Most people there don't have anything to do with policy enactment or enforcement so why would they care (case in point those other companies, you mentioned which also retained their workforces).
If the real consequence is a work culture in which bullying and harassment is sanctioned (or even encouraged) by management THEN people will leave because it's unpleasant to work in such an environment.
The ones remaining won't necessarily be your high performers
Nor is it useful as a voluntary limit on content moderation. Any social media site that allows absolutely anything First Amendment protected would quickly be overrun by porn and blood and gore.
I don't see why this would be infeasible.
And that assumes they can even cut the right 75%: what if the measure they use to determine the “valuable” employees turns out to be wrong? How do you even begin to undo / address that when everyone is being paid 2x?
The ad platform is just barely usable, with an only slightly better UI than LinkedIn.
Its core product has not changed meaningfully in 10 years.
The company down much of its developer-facing offering years ago.
There are e-commerce websites with a more complex stack than Twitter.
This is a product that can run on 1,000 people and nothing about the user experience will be different.
There is probably so much administrative, HR, and operational bloat that the company probably rivals most universities.
is there waste? highly likely. but the kind you’re implying? sounds ridiculous. what are you basing this on?
It seems like the sorta crackhead move we have come to expect from mister attention whore extraordinaire. He’s in a competition of some kind with Kanye, apparently.
Why is he wasting 40 billion on a trumpet of little worth if it’s worth so little?
What a weird mid life crisis sports car to buy, it’s not even red.