@miekg There have been at least a half dozen notable service degradations or outages so far in 2026 by my count. @netblocks has reported most of them with the #TwitterDown tag. At least a couple have made news elsewhere (at ThousandEyes and The New York Times for example).

In some sense, we know less about how Twitter is performing now than we used to. Service status pages were removed and access to the API to monitor trends has been made prohibitively expensive for many. And where you used to be able to view/browse tweets without an account or login, you often no longer can.

Why it hasn't burned down I could only guess. Some reasons may be: there is less actual infrastructure and load now, the system was left in a reasonable good enough state that it would take a lot to burn down, and there are enough capable people remaining to keep it from complete collapse.

As a public square I think it is inarguable that its popularity, importance, and relevance has been greatly diminished since the firings.