Elon Musk fires Twitter developer for criticizing him
Apparently, employees who publicly criticize Elon Musk must expect to be fired. At least that’s the fate of Twitter developer Eric Happened to Frohnhoefer after contradicting his boss in a tweet. The backgrounds.
“He’s fired,” Elon Musk tweeted succinctly after Twitter developer Eric Frohnhoefer contradicted him on the platform. Previously, Frohnhoefer, who says he has been working on Twitter’s Android app for six years, named one Tweet from Musk as false in which his boss claimed:
Btw, I want to apologize for the fact that Twitter is super slow in many countries. The app does >1000 badly bundled RPCs just to render a timeline!
Elon Musk fires Twitter employee for criticizing him
Meanwhile, Twitter developer Frohnhoefer criticized Musk’s claim that Twitter’s Android app was malfunctioning and provided explanations in the thread. being tweet has already received over 120,000 likes. When asked by Musk, the developer also added: “The applications do not make any RPC calls (Editor’s note: Remote Procedure Call)”.
This is a programming interface that allows processes to be run on remote devices. Eric Frohnhoefer’s comments were in turn welcomed by other developers. Former Twitter employee Bein Leib, commented Musk’s tweet as follows:
As a former technical director of Twitter’s timeline infrastructure, I can safely say that this man has no idea what he’s talking about.
Reddit offers Twitter developer new job
Some users, in turn, criticized Frohnhoefer for publicly exposing his boss. But he only replied that Musk should perhaps not ask questions in public. When asked by a user whether Musk wanted such employees on his team, he finally replied: “He’s fired”.
However, the developer should have little trouble getting a new job. Because a Reddit developer offered him a new job without further ado. After his Twitter takeover, Elon Musk meanwhile laid off around half of the permanent employees as well as thousands of contract workers and freelancers.
Also interesting:
