You're talking more about standard procedure after an acquisition. The new owners come in and look for redundancies and try to cut there. This was a change in

You're talking more about standard procedure after an acquisition. The new owners come in and look for redundancies and try to cut there. This was a change in ownership, not an acquisition. There's an assumption about a lot of dead weight at Twitter. There certainly may be, but it's not simple redundancies (ie, you don't need 2 accounting depts.). Instead they'll have to figure out if Twitter really needs that many people. My guess is Twitter isn't as over-staffed as people think. Content moderation and multi-country policy likely require a lot of staff. To quote Scott Galloway on his attempted company take overs, "I often find out I'm not as smart as I thought I was, and the existing management isn't as dumb as I thought they were."