How can a company such as Twitter survive even after such a huge percentage of its workforce has been fired?
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You just keep to stable code running. Keeping things running as-is is possible for quite some time, the code written over the years will still function mostly and a much smaller team can handle the occasional problem. As long as you keep the code the same and don’t push anything radical, you can keep things running.
However, it is going to become an increasingly jenga-escque state where your employees maintain systems and code that they don’t know how it works (even if they have documentation, it takes time to figure out exactly how it works exactly, code is confusing to everyone). There is a reason that software developer companies have far more programmers, engineers and specialists than they strictly need for day-to-day operation. Especially if you want to change things, make updates or fix bugs. Or worse, add new features.
It also helps when you are a billionaire that can bring experts in from his other tech company (or worse comes to worse, outside consultants) that you brought for ideological reasons (or whatever reason Musk brought it, it was certainly not because Twitter was raking in money beforehand). As long as Musk is willing to pour in the money, he can keep Twitter working *somehow*.
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