After laying off 50 per cent employees and thousands of contractors, Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk has now fired a member of the Android app developer team, but this time through a tweet.
After laying off 50 per cent employees and thousands of contractors, Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk has now fired a member of the Android app developer team, but this time through a tweet.
The person whose employment was terminated by Musk is an Android developer named Eric Fraunhofer, who tweeted that Musk's assessment of Twitter being slow was because the app "only timelines 1000 bad batched RPCs". To do" was wrong.
Musk tweeted late Sunday night, "BTW, I want to apologize for Twitter being super slow in many countries. The app is doing >1000 bad batched RPCs just to render the home timeline!"
Later, Eric quoted Musk's tweet and wrote, "I spent ~6 years working on Twitter for Android and I can say this is wrong."
I've spent ~6 years working on Twitter for Android and can say that it is wrong. https://t.co/sh30ZxpD0N
— Eric Frohnhoefer @ 🏡 (@EricFrohnhoefer) November 13, 2022
After this, the richest man in the world asked him, "So please correct me. What is the correct number?" And also asked, "Twitter is super slow on Android. What have you done to fix it?"
As the reactions to their Twitter conversation started rolling in, an anonymous user said, "I've been a developer for 20 years. And I can tell you that as the domain expert here you should inform your boss privately. Trying to do one in public. While he's trying to learn and be helpful, you look like a spiteful self-serving god."
To this, Eric replied by tweeting, "Maybe ask questions in private. Maybe using Slack or email."
Another user then tagged Musk in his tweet and asked the billionaire, "With an attitude like that, you probably don't want this guy on your team."
Musk responded to the same Twitter thread by simply saying, "He's fired."
Eric's removal was confirmed when he uploaded an image of his locked account in a tweet and wrote, "Looks like it's official now."
Guess it's official now. pic.twitter.com/5SRwotyD8J
— Eric Fraunhofer @ 🏡 (@EricFrohnhoefer) November 14, 2022
Since his acquisition of Twitter, Musk has fired a number of employees, including the company's CEO Parag Agarwal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Legal, and even the board of directors. He has made a flurry of decisions affecting the functioning of Twitter, which has millions of daily active users.
The biggest change Twitter is seeing is the inclusion of a new USD 7.99 per month Blue subscription. However, many people did not like Musk's decision to implement blue tick fees. Even some advertisers pulled out of the site.
Meanwhile, during his first address to Twitter employees since buying the company for $44 billion, Musk said bankruptcy was a possibility if it didn't start generating more cash.
The warning came amid the start of Musk's reign at the social media company - a two-week period in which he fired half of Twitter's staff, ousted most top executives and ordered the remaining employees to stop working from home. Two executives who had emerged as part of Musk's new leadership team to date, Joel Roth and Robin Wheeler, are also out, people familiar with the situation said.
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