[michael_storm]

Sales, support, marketing, accounting, business ops, software ops, management, HR. Pare those off and you might get something like Mastodon's contributor size after adjusting for scale of user base. Although I doubt many of Mastodon's contributors are full time, so a comparison is difficult.

[criddell]

So Twitter is big because it's big?

[michael_storm]

I don’t follow. Twitter is big because of all the things I just listed.

[gipp]

You just listed its components, the question was about why Twitter needs those things but Mastodon does not.

[michael_storm]

Because Twitter is a for-profit business, whereas Mastodon is not.

[criddell]

And they are up to around $2 billion in losses so far, right?

It sounds like they would be better off just being a Mastodon node.