[pants2]

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]

Also 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]

X is the exact opposite of in “maintenance mode” by any counts

[sakagami0]

This is not true. Its about 200ish devs now on x side. Rest are other functions, and its not close to 2800

[pants2]

Source?