I'd like to know how relevant search engine traffic is for Twitter. I was always under the impression that embed tweets and link shares would be way more important than search.

They’ve done fine with these employees for the last while. Trimming the fat is healthy, especially when Twitter has historically over-hired hard for no reason other than “growth for growth’s sake”.

There’s lots of legitimate reasons to criticize, but making a more efficient company and firing valueless employees is not one of them.