the craziest part about Twitter imploding has been the mindboggling speed that it's happening at. i hate Elon as much as the next guy, but a few weeks ago i was still telling myself that like. okay, sure, he's an idiot, but it's not like the CEO personally has his hands on every aspect of the business, right? he might kill Twitter eventually, but it'll be a death by a thousand cuts as he slowly introduces useless and hated new features. he would have to actively TRY to kill the company as soon as he takes over to truly do something disastrous.

and then within 12 hours of the deal going through he's fired half the company and a few days later he's down to like 15% of the original workforce, none of which know how to do things like "reboot the servers" or "send out paychecks" or "not be in flagrant violation of legally binding federal agreements with the FTC". fucking incredible. this is like watching your drunk cousin light a firecracker at your 4th of July cookout, and you're worried he's gonna try to throw it and might fuck up by holding onto it too long and blowing his hand off, but before you can say anything, he swallows it instead