A receptionist works in the lobby of the building that houses the Twitter office in New York on Oct. 26, 2022. [AP Photo]
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 up and running that industry insiders and programmers who were fired or resigned this week agree: Twitter may soon fray so badly it could actually crash.