Elon Musk announces Twitter mass layoffs to begin Friday

The thing that surprises me most about these stories is that Twitter had 7000 employees.

Anyone who's ever tried to get hold of a human being at one of these online behemoths and been given the runaround with 'un-monitored' email addresses, contact forms which submit into black holes and copy/paste 'support' staff, would have been forgiven for thinking the whole thing was run by a couple of dozen people, at most.

What the hell did 7000 of them find to do?

Mind you, looking at some of those job titles 'Head of Inclusion, Diversity...' etc. I suspect quite a few of them are just pissed off that the gravy train has finally run into the buffers.

As a very occasional user Twitter, I have to admit that the glacial pace of functional improvements when I drop in from one month to the next does not suggest a company with 7,000 employees.

I guess they could all work in sales and marketing, who knows.