I think Twitter is especially vulnerable to an outage of some kind just with the massive knowledge that has left. Things will start falling apart when whoever i

I think Twitter is especially vulnerable to an outage of some kind just with the massive knowledge that has left. Things will start falling apart when whoever is left starts making changes, could be 2 months, could be next summer. The other element is if they don't have infrastructure engineers (SRE?) left and nobody is monitoring and keeping tabs on various things that always fail and once those pile up something will fail publicly. People may casually look at twitter and think its a 280 character text field and like 4 buttons to like/retweet/reply/share (and reply is a recursive feature in a way) and assume you don't need a lot of technical complexity for that. You're correct, you don't, someone could probably build that flow in a weekend or less. The major feature of any public social media company is content moderation. That is invisible to end users and I imagine a lot of back-end processing and systems are required for that. It doesn't matter what the content is, it needs to be moderated and that usually falls on human judgement at some point for the more nuanced content. Things that need to be moderated start with content like the spam you get in your email or low effort promotional content anywhere online. Then work your way up thru content that will bring lawsuits against twitter, etc. My guess is once Musk starts initiating changes they will start discovering how complex it is to make changes, maybe backing out changes initially when BadThingsHappen™. Then he will get tired of it and put someone in charge and find another toy company to play with.