I'm a practicing computer scientist (bona fides: you can check my comment history if you want to see what I do and where I went to school) and I have two good friends that were in the Twitter purge; one was high up in the security group…and he got one of the infamous “oops our bad, we actually need you, wanna come back?” groveling messages. The other has gone radio silent, I think he's drinking himself into a stupor…:/
He told them to GFY, and in his text thread to the college friend group chat we're in, he's said that everyone he's talked(*) to is basically of the form: “Elon can go fuck himself, and since he's such a fucking genius, let's see him do it.”
Anyway, that's what I'm hearing from the one person I know who got shitcanned there, if I hear more, I'll post an edit on this.
* – Current count he's got is that there were about 60-75 people who were asked back, and it's a lot of what we would expect: security, systems integrations, and devops folk…you know, the folks that actually keep the lights on and can't accurately be judged by LOC
Edit: typos…still too early on Monday for me…