[hello_friendos]

The world cup is in two days -- how will Twitter cope with the largest amount of traffic it sees all year? Why fire the majority of employees right before this major event?

[speedgoose]

I think it's not his concern at the moment.

[NaturalPhallacy]

The largest amount of traffic twitter has ever received was November 7th after his takeover.

[somehnguy]

Do we have any real evidence of this or just what Elon tweets? Not sarcastic - I've just only seen his tweets saying that I don't believe the things he says.

[chrisseaton]

Are football fans really a big part of the Twitter user base?

[rhino369]

I don't know about soccer, but American sports news is hugely tied up with twitter. It's replaced the sports page of the news paper, ESPN, and even sports radio. I imagine it's the same for international football.

[partiallypro]

Football Twitter is pretty big, but I don't think it's big enough to cause a big dent.

[jacquesc]

I can't actually imagine watching NFL without using Twitter during commercials (or after something crazy happens). It's actually quite spectacular

World Cup is definitely going to surge traffic

[spookie]

I would guess so. As long as you are doing business outside North America, this is a fair concern to have.

[chrisseaton]

At least in the UK Twitter was mostly politicians, journalists, and tech.

[crooked-v]

Twitter experiences massive usage surges every year during the World Cup.

[Beldin]

Which sport? Football's world cup is once every 4 years...

[chrisseaton]

> every year during the World Cup

Wat?

[acomms]

Every month in fact!

[hfbff]

Football fans are a sizable group in pretty much in every social network