The weeks following Tesla CEO Elon Musk's takeover of the social media giant Twitter have been plagued with a roller coaster of news about office closures, waves of resignations and—more recently—concerns of a complete Twitter shutdown.

For now, whether Twitter's doomsday is coming is still uncertain. But, while the threat of loss of years' worth of companies' data has prompted some e-discovery attorneys to act preemptively and preserve their clients' data, for others this could be the impetus behind testing collection tools and reevaluating e-discovery processes to account for ephemeral data.

While most of corporations' discoverable data often lies in collaboration platforms such as Slack or Microsoft Teams, for legal teams whose litigation could eventually involve Twitter, these past couple of weeks definitely raised alarm bells to start backing up data that lies on the platform.