Not to mention the fucking insulting assumption that people were not already working hard. During my tour (left years ago) there have been many time periods when I worked my ass off. I ended up leaving because of the total burn-out and the effect it started to have on my health. Despite that even years later I played with the idea of going back someday. No chance of that now of course. So sad to see it end this way.

I suppose they are asserting that some folks who delivered a product valued at over 40 billion dollars didn't actually deliver anything.

That would actually make sense somewhere on social media.

Put yourself into their shoes. Why take a risk with Twitter when there are other options with similar returns but without the drama? There is a non-zero chance that just being associated with Twitter could turn out to be problematic in the coming months.

I think there’s a non-zero chance that this turns out to all be fake news and Twitter is fine.

From the linked thread:

> Most of the 2,000+ content moderators working on front-line review were not impacted, and access will be fully restored in the coming days.

An implication here is that engineering was hit that much harder.

(Assuming that "most of" doesn't mean "50% + 1")

One thing is for sure: It will be absolute hell for those who will have to keep things running in the coming months. For better or worse Twitter infra is extremely comlex. 50% gone would be very rough even if the cuts were made thoughtfully and things were in KTLO-only mode. But that's not the case. Musk has already been pushing changes through skipping the normal process and will likely continue doing so, aggressively. Not a good combination.