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1) This is by any source I can find, incorrect. Twitter had ~8,000 employees when Musk bought it. After layoffs that was trimmed to a low of around 1,500 employ
by pants2 8mo ago
1) This is by any source I can find, incorrect. Twitter had ~8,000 employees when Musk bought it. After layoffs that was trimmed to a low of around 1,500 employees (19%), and today it has around 2,800 employees.
Also worth mentioning that a lot of Twitter's products are built on X.ai which has 1,200 core employees on Grok with 3,000+ on the Datacenter build-out side.
- coffeebeqn 8mo agoAlso if you put a product in maintenance mode you can easily get away with a fraction of your devs. Most people are at all times working on some definition of something new
- noname120 8mo agoX is the exact opposite of in “maintenance mode” by any counts
- pavlov 8mo agoReally? Has it meaningfully changed since 2022? Everything they promised like payments and a "super app" seems to have fallen by the wayside.
- dkrich 8mo agoAlso have to consider that it’s now private which removes the pressure of having to show any semblance of a profit or, critically, share usage or advertising statistics which could (and probably are) down dramatically since the acquisition. Being private allows the fictitious storyline to persist that “we’re doing great and everyone is using our products.”
- sakagami0 8mo agoThis is not true. Its about 200ish devs now on x side. Rest are other functions, and its not close to 2800
- pants2 8mo agoSource?