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2000 is probably low. You don't understand what it takes to maintain and engineer a platform like that with as many users and the security implications.

I do and it could be maintained with under 100 people. That is being extremely generous as well. This will include the security team

If you want to add enhancements, then I give you another 100 for devs and QA.

That is generally what you might need from an IT side and I did some extreme padding.

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Posted by gatorsimz

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Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:37 pm to DarthRebel

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I do and it could be maintained with under 100 people. That is being extremely generous as well. This will include the security team

It’s a very basic product that’s in the mature phase of the business cycle. No customer service. No marketing or sales really. 100 is plenty.

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Posted by mmcgrath

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Posted on 10/20/22 at 11:13 pm to DarthRebel

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I do and it could be maintained with under 100 people. That is being extremely generous as well. This will include the security team

If you want to add enhancements, then I give you another 100 for devs and QA.

That is generally what you might need from an IT side and I did some extreme padding.

Some of you guys clearly have never been in the vicinity of systems that have to support thousands of users 24/7, much less the tens of millions of users across the planet that Twitter has to support.

He could possibly run it with 2,000 employees, but that would be the bare minimum and only because he may outsource some functions. No telling if he wants to actually save money / streamline or simply look to sink his own investment.

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