Twitter was down
There were many different hypotheses on the outcome of Elon firing 80%+ of Twitter employees:<p>1. The site would crash and burn the next day.<p>2. Nothing would change. All those engineers were anyways just sitting around.<p>3. There would be no immediate impact (servers can run by themselves after all), but the site would slowly degrade over time as institutional knowledge around maintenance, upkeep and all the various system quirks was gone.<p>We are now seeing #3 play out in front of us.