>> Elon reduced twitter by 80% and it still runs today. (It had some glitches during the transition, obviously)

Both advertisers and users are abandoning Twitter / X in droves [1]. It is failing as a business [2] and has failed at every high profile event that has been hosted recently (e.g. political campaign events) [3].

It does not look like a business that is growing and thriving. It looks like it is on life support and dying.

>> Is there a possibility that all bureaucracies are 80% overstaffed?

There is always room for more efficiency and improvement, but the heavy-handed sledgehammer, top-down approach that Musk took with Twitter is definitely not the best way to do it.

Instead, a bottom-up approach is probably better. Who knows better where the waste is than those who work in the organizations and carry out the processes? Ask them where the waste is and what needs to happen to make it more efficient. Firing a bunch of people and axing whole organizations is likely to break things and cause major systemic problems just like it did with Twitter.

[1] https://qz.com/twitter-x-ad-revenue-tumbles-elon-musk-grok-1...

https://www.deseret.com/business/2024/10/02/x-twitter-loses-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/x-sees-largest-user-e...

[2] https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-revenue-falls-x-payme...

[3] https://gizmodo.com/x-twitter-down-outage-elon-musk-threads-...

Musk, Ramaswamy vow 'mass head-count reductions' in U.S. government