Twitter on the verge of collapse as engineers quit following Elon Musk takeover
Elon Musk’s managerial bomb-throwing at Twitter has so thinned the ranks of software engineers who keep the world’s de-facto public square running that industry insiders and programmers who were fired or resigned this week agree: Twitter might soon fray so badly it could actually crash. Musk ended a very public argument with nearly two dozen coders over his retooling of the microblogging platform this week by sacking them. Hundreds of engineers and other workers then quit after he demanded they pledge to “extremely hardcore” work by Thursday evening or resign with severance pay. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> The departures mean the platform is losing workers just at it gears up for the 2022 FIFA World Cup starting on Sunday. It’s one of Twitter’s busiest events, when tweet surges heavily stress its systems. “It does look like he’s going to blow up Twitter,” said Robert Graham, a veteran cybersecurity entrepreneur. “I can’t see how the lights w...