Complaining about Twitter still running for their public presence is a testament to how much solid automation and infrastructure the previous SREs put in place than anything. If you look you can find comments about how it is already deteriorating in their ad portal. Complaining about a website being up is like asking what the IT person at your org does all day, and then getting angry when they get fired and things start going down a month later.

It wasn't really that bloated, it is just a stupid business to run because it requires a massive investment and delivers only twits.

I'm a bit shocked that no-one "acquihired" twitter to make another real tech company without hitting all the barriers and filtering even an infinite blood-money funded startup will hit. They threw out the baby, but the bath water is still there, and cloudy and a bit cold.

After 15 years of existence Twitter was 2B dollars in the black. That's more than 100M$ for every year that Twitter has existed.

The business is now in the red in the excess of 10B dollars because Elon put a 13B dollar loan on the company's books.

The company was running fine even after the market crash until Elon took over. It's in the red now, not because of bloated employees- but because of Elon Musk.