I don't think the plan was to re-hire good people from the same pool that got fired. And I honestly don't expect Elon's Twitter to have any problem hiring good

I don't think the plan was to re-hire good people from the same pool that got fired. And I honestly don't expect Elon's Twitter to have any problem hiring good new people (even in the absolute worst case scenario there is a huge untapped pool of non-left-wing programmers who would previously never work at Twitter because of the culture of that place).