Twitter chief Elon Musk came down heavily on his employee on the social media platform after he questioned the claim of his boss’s tweet. Musk had earlier tweeted an apology for Twitter being “super slow” in many countries, saying that the app is doing “>1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render timelines”.
A Twitter developer named Eric Frohnhoefer, who worked on Twitter for Android for years, tweeted that Musk’s assessment is wrong. The world’s richest man then retorted asking him what is the correct figure and what have the developers done to fix it. Soon, users started to react as memes also started flooding the platform.
I have 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 one up him in public while he is trying to learn and be helpful makes you look like a spiteful self serving dev.
— Money Nerd Techie (@pokemoniku) November 14, 2022
Some developers supported Frohnhoefer while others said he should have informed his boss “privately”. But the developer responded, “Maybe he should ask questions privately. Maybe using Slack or email.”
Another user then tagged Musk asking if he wants the person with “this kind of attitude” on your team. The new owner of the platform replied to the message saying, “He’s fired.”
He’s fired
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2022
Later Frohnhoefer also bowed out with a salute emoji.
Musk introduced a lot of changes in the platform such as charging $8 for verified handles, banning parody accounts and killing the grey “official” check for organisations and eminent personalities.
Most of the changes were retracted after people started misusing them aimd “Chief Twit” claiming that the platform will make a lot of “dumb mistakes” in the coming week.
On Monday, Musk, who was responding online to questions during a session at the B20 in Indonesia on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Bali this week, said, “I’m working the absolute most that I can work — morning to night, seven days a week.”
The comments come as Musk brings his unique brand of management to the social-media platform, firing close to 3,700 employees just over a week ago.