Similar content on Mastodon for anyone avoiding Twitter:

https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick/109831436839340942

is this someone close to twitter’s inner workings? if not, can we stop pretending that random people have insight as to what is happening at twitter.

Nope, he’s indicated in past Tweets that he’s at Google.

Given how many people they've fired, the people with the most insight here are random people.