Twitter

This is what Twitter going down looks like

People, and the media in particular, seemed to think that after Twitter did the first round of mass layoffs, that it would just…stop working. That clearly hasn’t happened, and it was never a super realistic expectation. These systems are designed to be robust against “one big thing”.

Extremely Hardcore

Inside Elon’s “extremely hardcore” TwitterThree months, thousands of layoffs, one egoThe VergeZoe Schiffer, Casey Newton, and Alex Heath Zoe Schiffer, Casey Newton, and Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge: Twitter’s staff