What sets the number of employees isn’t the number of users, its the amount being spent by competitors trying to pull those users engagement elsewhere.
“ Also, Twitter has been made pretty darn resilient over the years. You can call it good engineering, some will call it overengineering, others resilient engineering.
Point is, it’s built in a way where it doesn’t break easily”
I imagine this ceases to be true if they cut a billion dollars in infrastructure costs.
Divided by 15,000 employed, that's around 18,000 users per employee.
This doesn't seem excessively challenging.
I realise it's not linear, but has anyone tried to run some more relevant basic benchmarks as to what a "right size" twitter staffing number might be?