[autaut]

Musk cutting the headcount and everything working fine is a myth he perpetrated. In reality things started to go badly almost immediately, big advertisers left.

He then wrapped x in xAI where effectively they are developing new features in x. So that now we effectively don’t really know what the head count is.

[matrix87]

Yeah, he cut headcount, zuck saw an opening, now threads took a bunch of market share (and probably has a better monetization system in place).

Once a company gets bloated, it's pretty much impossible for upper management to actually know (or have time to know) where the bloat is