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Mary Yang

How likely is a complete Twitter meltdown?

The departures of thousands of Twitter workers is raising fears about the stability of the influential social media site under new owner Elon Musk. (NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

People are singing their last birdsongs on Twitter, as some brace for what they fear will be a final farewell to the platform whose workforce has shrunk dramatically in the few weeks it's been owned by billionaire Elon Musk.

While it's unlikely that Twitter will shut down entirely, departing employees are warning of service outages, glitches and safety risks.

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