[tazu]

Letting 80% go seems to have worked for X.

[SketchySeaBeast]

If by worked you mean "the site isn't dead", yes. If you mean more "profitable", I don't think that's true, is it?

[tazu]

Setting aside the political reasons for less advertising revenue, it's still running and there are 200M DAU. Many ex-employees swore the servers would catch fire by now.

[brigadier132]

That has nothing to do with letting go staff and everything to do with the owner.

[ryoshu]

Let go of 80% of workers and 84% of revenue. Brilliant.

[bdcravens]

Aren't the two disconnected? The revenue lost is a result of advertisers not wanting to be connected to Musk's politics. Downsizing isn't what caused that.

[ywvcbk]

Twitter is just a relatively simple website, though. They aren’t doing anything particularly complex or innovative and aren’t releasing any new products.

It could survive for years in maintenance mode as long as people continue using it.

[EasyMark]

Letting go of 80%of intel’s employees and the company is dead in weeks other than a skeleton crew of lawyers, bean counters, and top level execs stuffing their golden parachutes with maximum parachute.