Laying off 90% of your staff and locking them out of your offices a few days before the World cup when you need all-hands to keep the whole thing tipping up is .. a choice

@Pwnallthethings Quoth one ex-tweep to the Washington Post, "I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers. There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”

My twitter archive is trapped on a laptop that lost its marbles. Requested another a couple days ago. Probably too late.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/17/twitter-musk-easing-rto-order/

Hundreds said to have opted to leave Twitter over Musk ultimatum

The number of likely departures prompted Musk to ease his return-to-office edict and managers to meet to decide which engineers to ask back.

The Washington Post