Have there been any changes at Twitter in the last five minutes?

Let me see the last five seconds.

This is how hard it is to keep up with this news.

We can't even stop to podcast for one hour without this man hopping on spaces and reek and have it.

I'm Kevin Rousse. I'm a tech columnist at The New York Times.

And I'm Casey Newton from Platformer. And you're listening to Hard Fork.

To me on the show, Twitter continues to melt down, with the collapse of FTX means for the future of crypto,

and what to make of the layoffs across the tech industry.

Is this fun?

Well, Kevin, I do enjoy seeing you on Thursday nights. I would like to begin seeing other people.

So I won't take offense to that. In fact, I feel much the same way.

All right. So Casey, what has happened at Twitter since last week?

Well, the first thing, which you know, is that the layoffs happened.

And they were as severe as had been predicted.

So about five minutes ago, I was going to be like,

I'm not sure as severe as had been predicted. So about 50% of the company in one fell swoop just got sort of wiped out.

And it led to just a ton of confusion that took days and days to play out.

Right. Including one of the people that we spoke to on last week's episode was laid off.

But not both.

That's right. And you know, like each one of these stories is super sad.

Of course, some people were bracing for it. Some people sort of expected it.

And we're happy to not be part of the company anymore.

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