> Can the drop in revenue be offset by the ~80% drop in payroll? None of the prognostications about Twitter’s total and utter technical collapse after such a dr

> Can the drop in revenue be offset by the ~80% drop in payroll? None of the prognostications about Twitter’s total and utter technical collapse after such a dramatic headcount reduction came true [0]. I think there's a famous Hemingway quote that goes something like "change happens slowly, then all at once." Twitter still may be able to coast for awhile, even if 100% of the technical staff were fired, but they've certainly lost a lot of knowledge and likely put those that remain in a situation where burnout is likely [1]. If there's going to be a technical collapse, I think it will be over a longer term. [1] Especially since I see little in Twitter to keep an engineer passionate. There's no story here about saving humanity from climate change or colonizing Mars. It's just "keep the boss happy" and "keep prior achievements from being ruined," but those aren't very motivating and Musk seems to have a talent to undermine them.