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Is Elon’s plan to drastically cut Twitter’s headcount actually a good way to fix Twitter?

Here’s John Gruber following up on a post by Basecamp’s David Heinemeier Hanssen, who argued that Twitter’s huge size compared to its revenue and userbase is the source of its dysfunction, and that Elon’s plan to reduce headcount by nearly 75 percent isn’t a bad place to start.

Everyone I know who has (or still does) work [at Twitter] has told me the same thing: the company is lousy with do-nothing employees and layers of bureaucracy to support their preposterously high headcount and needless managerial fiefdoms.

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