Doubt it. Quite a few tech cos have been announcing freezes as well as RIFs.

Most are trimming fat because of market conditions (economic slowdown) Twitter because they were management heavy and they were bought out and needed to trim some excess weight.

If Musk hadn't made a Twitter offer, where would their stock be today? Probably low enough that big layoffs were inevitable.

It likely has nothing to do with it.

I'd blame this more on overblown headcount combined with the new built-in privacy features on both Apple and Android phones for hitting adtech revenue. But one could have seen that coming a year in advance, when these features were being prepared.

Oh, and for Meta specifically, this outsized bet on the "metaverse".

Possibly indirectly in the sense most people are going to be consumed with the Twitter debacle and won't really pay much attention to what is going on at Meduh.