Technical and support teams are needed to keep a site like this running globally. Good examples of the work from an SRE: https://twitter.com/MosquitoCapital/sta

Technical and support teams are needed to keep a site like this running globally. Good examples of the work from an SRE: https://twitter.com/MosquitoCapital/status/1593541177965678592 https://twitter.com/MosquitoCapital/status/15935411779656785... Other things which aren't necessarily needed to technically keep the code running, but without which you won't have an operating service: * Sales and account management teams to keep and grow advertiser revenue, and all the support services around them (marketing, integration, etc) * Moderation teams to keep illegal or dangerous content off the platform, and implement your moderation policy which you need for many reasons including appeal to advertisers * Abuse teams to respond to the latest DoS / hacking / impersonation / harrassment / etc. * Legal and ops teams to understand and implement compliance with laws, regulatory filings, etc across 150+ countries, and in some countries like the US, individual state variations. You tell me how many people you can do this with at the scale of Twitter. I think > 1000 people are a skeleton staff just to keep the lights on.