Think about it. Twitter, now X, the global "town square" handling billions of impressions, automated censorship classifiers, and payment processing, is run by a core team of just 25 to 30 engineers.
That’s fewer full-time employees than your local Costco tire center or neighborhood Lidl supermarket in Europe.
Even wilder. Those exact same xAI engineers are also tasked with supporting Space Force and Starshield defense systems.
Bros, they are busy. They cannot read your appeal.
When X moderation system is built by a startup size crew, it all finally makes sense:
Why suspensions are handled by automated unmonitored scripts
Why appeals get rejected two to twenty seconds after we submit it
Why X billing portal breaks the second you try to cancel Premium subscription.
Each core engineer individually supports roughly 24 million monthly active users and monitors 20 to 24 million posts a day. Imagine what happens when someone accidentally spills coffee on the keyboard while multitasking between optimizing a satellite launch trajectory and reviewing “inauthentic behavior and platform manipulation” loop.
To summarize, X is essentially a handful of servers on auto-pilot held together by duct tape, prayers, and 55 core engineers, 25 X Corp. plus 30 xAI, while the primary company resources get directed into building humanoid robots and playing with rockets.
We need a Congressional hearing just to see if this edifice can stand the weight of its own ambition. Or to get a flowchart - any flowchart - that explains how this actually works.
I’ll be sharing the full investigative article from The Business Club editorial team soon, along with a letter template you can send to your congressional representatives.
Until then, I'm left quoting Tucker Carlson and Saturday Night Life, SNL: "What are we doing? What is going on? That is the rule?That is the goal now?"
