Very interesting and informative. You also give several hints on how to improve Gridcoin community and in particular, twitter team. There are however some inconsistencies.

Few contributors available instead of many

A significant issue we faced on a number of occasions in the official-social-media channel was being unable to post critical security or network issues in a timely manner, due to only having two people with posting abilities

Hive account@vortac 's poll if successful will add two new members, thus team would expand, not contract.

Section 4 - The channel’s fallout

The primary issue that plagues this group is a lack of content. [...] the channel recently lost two members [...] this was effectively the final nail in the coffin

You point to several problems within the twitter team, but contrary to given evidence, in conclusions you disprove those problems:

Basically, if it ain’t broken, don’t break it.

Conclusions:

• team needs to work according to agreed rules
• team members need to live in different time zones
• fast lane required for urgent security updates