They’ve done fine with these employees for the last while. Trimming the fat is healthy, especially when Twitter has historically over-hired hard for no reason other than “growth for growth’s sake”.

There’s lots of legitimate reasons to criticize, but making a more efficient company and firing valueless employees is not one of them.

... and you can do just fine without regular maintenance on your house ... for a while.

What makes you think all of those employees were useful? An employee does not have inherent value. It’s not as though Twitter never had problems before the acquisition.

I don't recall Twitter running a denial of service on itself previously? Do you?

Maybe related to the "load issues", maybe not but ny timeline stopped showing images this morning.

Seems just another day at Twitter dot com.

I'd like to know how relevant search engine traffic is for Twitter. I was always under the impression that embed tweets and link shares would be way more important than search.