[tptacek]

The fact that Twitter just raptured away 50%+ of their workforce and things are still running mostly the way they did before indicates, to me at least, that Twitter must have been one of the better-run engineering orgs on the planet.

[systemicdanna]

Did you expect it to crash the second people were let go? It’s not like they power Twitter servers with power-generating bicycles.

[tptacek]

It is already more aerodynamically stable than I expected it to be.

[nmeofthestate]

I wonder how many redundancies are for technical roles and how many are for non technical roles (the "political/editorial wing" of the company such as the "curation team", the "human rights" team).

[edgyquant]

I would hope that their production deployments are fairly stable. If the app was crashing and riddled with known bugs at this point they’d be one of the worst run.