Twitter is a poorly run company

Twitter has so much potential to be a hugely profitable company. It offers ad targeting on a level that makes Facebook seem weak and pathetic. Being able to target people based on who they follow should be all it takes to make it the most profitable ad-driven company, save for Google, on the Internet.

Despite this, it continues to bleed money because it's a massively bloated company with no fucking idea what it's doing. How much could it possibly cost to run something like Twitter? It doesn't have a complex algorithm like Google to sort results by quality or relevance or a huge farm of servers to cache search results in full detail -- it's just a fucking newsfeed service for end users.

For example, Twitter has 4,300 employees!!! How could you possibly need 4,300 people to run a website that's just a rip-off of Facebook's timeline feature? If it weren't a public company, Twitter would look like a money laundering scheme designed to take cash from VCs (and now the public) and redistribute it to overpaid, clueless San Francisco tech industry morons.