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 don’t need that many people to keep Twitter “on”. It (mostly) doesn’t need active maintenance every day. Think of it like turning on your phone – you don’t need to constantly make sure it’s still switched on throughout the day – it just does it. Twitter will just run.
The problems come from secondary staff. Here’s a list of things that Twitter used to have staff for, but now has either no staff or skeleton staff for:
* Moderation, such as removing harmful content and managing banned users
* Routine security maintenance, to keep the platform secure from hacking
* New feature development, to keep the platform relevant
Without the above three things, many predict a slow decline. As security gets worse, features stagnate and harmful content proliferates, people will stop using the site. As people stop using it, advertisers will stop paying to advertise on it – and then Twitter is dead.
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