"I think you possess a fundamental misunderstanding of why this is happening. Could Twitter fire most of its developers and sustainably turn a profit? Yes, it a

"I think you possess a fundamental misunderstanding of why this is happening. Could Twitter fire most of its developers and sustainably turn a profit? Yes, it absolutely could. But instead it chooses to invest its would-be profits (and a little more) back into the company, in hopes that they will be even bigger later on." Indeed their only real option at this point is likely to start slashing cost and hope it doesn't impact revenue. I don't disagree with you there. However, realistically this is hard to pull off without sending signals that the ship is sinking and everyone should just go elsewhere.