[manuelabeledo]

> He laid off 90% of the staff and still the website is doing alright (at least engineering wise).

This is debatable.

Twitter hasn't added any meaningful functionality in recent years, which is fine if you think your product can survive stagnation for the foreseeable future. I wouldn't think so, but who knows.

Also, random Twitter functionality seems to be broken once a month, more or less. Last time I checked, new signups were having trouble following accounts and posting, which is as essential as it could be for Twitter to work.

[syspec]

I think to most people, twitter is fine and was fine with only its core product.

[digital_sawzall]

The core products of social media platforms are the advertising systems!

After telling the advertisers to go 'F themselves', those paying customers are leaving in droves plus the ad ecosystem is one of the worst in the industry.

The only alternative is to get enough paying users. Good luck.

[manuelabeledo]

"Most people" are the users. Users (mostly) aren't paying for the platform, advertisers are.