People fail to understand that large projects have inertia. He could have shuttered all twitter offices, fired all employees, and only paid the server bills, and the website would probably continue to function just fine for a few months.
But as a devops/SRE, this whole saga has been awesome to watch
Yep! All social media sites can see the bombshell that is LLM's, and they're working to try and create their own applications behind the scene, or at the very least monetize their datasets for usage by the likes of OpenAI. There's a LOT of money in that space right now!