Though, Twitter would need to make the layoffs random, force co-workers to escort the laid off off premises, and take away perks for a few weeks... If that's what they were angling for.
"Note that, with careful optimization, only 14 gajillion messages are necessary. This is still too many messages; however, if the system sends fewer than 14 gajillion messages, it will be vulnerable to accusations that it only handles reasonable failure cases, and not the demented ones that previous researchers spitefully introduced in earlier papers in a desperate attempt to distinguish themselves from even more prior (yet similarly demented) work."