Meta (for better or worse - definitely for worse) definitely is one of the few entities with the engineering expertise to pull it off. As for driving Twitter employees to its competitors, that’s definitely happened.

Last I heard, Twitter’s engineering team now mostly consists of a skeleton crew, and the only reason they’re likely there is because of the terms on their H1B Visas.

edit: Slightly misread the second point. Given the rounds of mass layoffs in tech companies, I am not sure Elon’s Twitter has served as much as a warning as it should’ve.

Scaling it to Twitter’s size is the difficult part. Although Elon has been doing some excellent work in bringing decades worth of engineering work into decay within the short span of the past 9 months.

No amount of money can make living with Elon worth it

Finally, a competition where I’d like to see all parties involved lose as hard as possible