Can you tell me where you work, and are you hiring???
Also initially they had a lot of breakage.
And, for now at least, advertisers on twitter can't sell products to these bots. So lost money.
That collapse didn't happen.
I think the record single instance uptime on a customer site was most of a decade, running a TV station.
If the factory workers don't show up for work, your factory's output immediately drops to 0%. If none of your software engineers show up, most of your company's code will continue to run, some of it in a degraded state, for a while. (How much depends on your sub-industry, and how much you're outsourcing to AWS). And if you can get 5% of your workers to show up, you might be able to handle 90% of the on-call load.