https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-laid-off-twitter-workers-value-tech-jobs-work-2023-5
Discourse has recently raged over the apparent trend of "fake work," with some execs and investors claiming that tech companies overhired and gave people unnecessary jobs as a "vanity metric." Proponents of the theory say that this is why tech giants are now slashing so many jobs.
Just breathlessly repeating what the CEO says instead of doing 10 minutes of research to find all the other stories about how he accidentally fired a huge number of people who actually had a lot of value and now have to beg those workers to return.
Twitter was probably significantly overstaffed, like most big tech companies before the money printer shut off and they suddenly found they could get by on half the headcount. It is simultaneously true that he cut way too deep and without understanding what he was cutting.