How Many People Does Elon Musk Need to Run Twitter? Silicon Valley Wants to Know

Users complain about glitches, employees say they are stretched thin, but the site largely keeps running

Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October, said the likely time to put in place a new person to take over the day-to-day management of the social-media platform could be toward the end of 2023. He spoke remotely at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Photo: Kamran Jebreili/Associated Press

Elon Musk is trying to run Twitter Inc. with an ever-shrinking fraction of the staff the company had when he took over. Silicon Valley is watching to see if he will succeed.

Across the tech industry and many businesses broadly, companies are trying to do more with less—using layoffs to unwind recent hiring sprees and cutting back on some long-shot projects.

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