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Tom Williams

As Twitter sheds more employees, is Elon Musk's social media platform really at risk of breaking during the soccer World Cup?

Tech industry insiders and experts are concerned about the stability and security of Twitter, after the social media giant shed many of its core engineers.

Hundreds of workers quit this week after Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, demanded they commit to an "extremely hardcore" work environment or resign with severance pay. Thousands of others had already been sacked.

Hashtags such as #RIPTwitter, #twittershutdown and #twittermigraton have trended since, with some former employees sharing their experiences on the very platform they've either left or been fired from.

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