My analysis as someone who's been on the internet far too long:
This person has a dragon fursona. Their dragon fursona gives live birth. The fact that their imaginary dragon self gives live birth is so important to them that they claim to suffer PTSD-like symptoms at the mere suggestion that dragons lay eggs.
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