It's hard for me to understand how Twitter has so many employees when: a) The site has relatively few major features beyond displaying lots of text in chronolo

It's hard for me to understand how Twitter has so many employees when: a) The site has relatively few major features beyond displaying lots of text in chronological order. b) The site is so overwhelmingly shitty. They had a great thing going for themselves years back when developers were really excited about building on the Twitter API and experimenting with it in all kinds of ways and creating great new apps daily. That stopped when Twitter started running wild and harassing devs and making investment into the Twitter ecosystem practically impossible. They could have kept their costs down and just needed a small number of employees to keep the infrastructure up.