Obviously 100% of the engineers weren't just keeping the lights on. The long-term future of Twitter is way more bleak right now than it was a year ago, and that

Obviously 100% of the engineers weren't just keeping the lights on. The long-term future of Twitter is way more bleak right now than it was a year ago, and that has, in part, to do with the fact that all of the insane engineering talent at Twitter is gone. Twitter has some insane infrastructure, which was way ahead of it's time, and which is arguably why the company is still doing fine.