I really don't get.

Twitter used to have 7500 employees and now it is working perfectly ok with 1500~

What am I missing from business perspective?

Twitter had a lot of side projects and people that were not needed to run their core business. E.g. they used to have a Linux kernel engineering team [1]. They argued their value, but I was always a tad skeptical. Even if they earned their keep in terms of ROI, Twitter can definitely be run without kernel engineers.

[1] https://danluu.com/in-house/

	▲	WarmWash 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ok now do the other 5990 employees.

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lukasm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

no really, search is appalling, web version for mobile is full of bugs

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jackb4040 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Twitter does not work at all lol

	▲	prepend 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It works as well as it ever did. Or the same level of not working.
	▲	the_sleaze_ 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Twitter does not work at all lol Can you point to some specific instances? I've seen it working just fine.