Ironically, I think some of the mudge leaks can cast light on this. One of the allegations he made was that "Twitter faced a non-negligible existential risk of

Ironically, I think some of the mudge leaks can cast light on this. One of the allegations he made was that "Twitter faced a non-negligible existential risk of even brief simultaneous, catastrophic data center failure, and had no workable disaster recovery plan."[0] Without more details, it's impossible to say but to me, this speaks to somewhat fragile infrastructure for an organization of this size and importance. I've worked at organizations with and without strong cold start plans, but the fact that Twitter didn't have one suggests it might difficult to do given the maturity of their infra. [0] https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22186683/twitter-whistleblower-disclosure.pdf https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22186683/twitter-whis... page 28