The disrespectful part is discovering that you've been laid off via a side effect of the layoff, rather than being told by a person. It's true that layoffs are

The disrespectful part is discovering that you've been laid off via a side effect of the layoff, rather than being told by a person. It's true that layoffs are (even more) difficult and complex in the case of a remote employee, but this doesn't mean that we should see something appalling and simply throw up our hands and say "what were they supposed to do". We solve complex, difficult problems every day -- when the solutions are valuable to us. This is a demonstration that treating their employees with respect is not valuable to Twitter.