[NYPOST] Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday mocked the social media company’s previous ownership for overseeing an "absurdly overstaffed" operation run like a "glorified deep thinker organization." In an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Musk joked that running Twitter after letting go of 80% of its staff in the days after his October 2022 takeover wasn’t such a tall task because he wasn’t concerned about censoring users.
"Turns out, you don’t need all that many people to run Twitter," the billionaire business tycoon told Carlson after confirming that 80% of the company’s employees were fired or left voluntarily after his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform.
An incredulous Carlson noted that 80% "is a lot" of people to have leave, to which Musk responded: "I mean, if you’re not trying to run some sort of glorified deep thinker organization, and you don’t care that much about censorship, then you can really let go of a lot of people it turns out."
"I think we just had a situation at Twitter where it was absurdly overstaffed," Musk argued, comparing Twitter to a "group text service at scale."
"Like how many people are really needed for that?" he added.