I think Twitter was definitely overstaffed. You don't need that much manpower to run a tech company, at least on the technical side. The problem is that Twitte

I think Twitter was definitely overstaffed. You don't need that much manpower to run a tech company, at least on the technical side. The problem is that Twitter organized itself as an overstaffed company, with complex structures, complex code, lots of R&D, etc... Than Elon Musk came in and did a Thanos snap and immediately fired half of the workforce, and I guess quite a few others left, especially among the best who would have an easy way finding a good job elsewhere. But while the workforce was drastically reduced, the complexity of the system wasn't reduced and probably never will. So, you get what happens now. It is possible to run a Twitter-like website with much less resources than Twitter had before Elon Musk bought it, but you can't run Twitter as it is now.