"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."
Many in the news media world took to X to share their displeasure with the development, while others joked they were worried their pages had been hacked.
Passan said "I have no idea if Twitter is going to be around today, tomorrow, next week, next year" and said he wanted fans to have a "break-glass-in-case-of-emergency-plan".
"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."