Elon Musk after taking over Twitter has given surplus amount of news that could cover for atleast a week just by talking about it. He went on a lay off spree, firing and re-firing officials. Even in his busy schedules, he replies to people’s queries on Twitter. One such query lead to him firing a Twitter official.
Yes, he fired a Twitter employee publicly on Twitter. He has also announced new features and plans. To be honest, his plans are not sitting well with many notable personalities and officials. Consequentially, this led to lot o celebrities choosing to vacate Twitter and some taking time off until this mess clears up.
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What Led Elon Musk To Fire An Employee Publicly?
On November 13, Musk in a tweet said that he would like to apologize for “Twitter being super slow in many countries.” The reason he gave was that the app was doing less than 1000 “poorly batched” remote procedure calls to load the home timeline. Musk implied that the app had to reach out to far too many servers and it was delaying the loading of homepage.
This was countered by one of the Twitter app developers, who claimed to be working on the app since the past six years. Eric Frohnhoefer publicly called out Musk’s mistake and said, “I have spent 6yrs working on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong.” Musk, immediately replied and said, “Then please correct me. What is the right number?”, before adding in another tweet, “Twitter is super slow on Android. What have you done to fix that?”
I have spent ~6yrs working on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong. https://t.co/sh30ZxpD0N
— Eric Frohnhoefer @ 🏡 (@EricFrohnhoefer) November 13, 2022
Two hours later, the engineer replied to Musk saying, “We have done a bunch of work to improve performance and we found that it correlates well with increasing UAM and Ad spend. Agree, there is plenty of room for performance improvements on Android. However, I don’t think the number of requests is the primary issue.”
On the same thread of tweets, Musk went on to say, “He’s fired.” This was done after when someone in the Twitter asked whether Frohnhoefer should have not confronted Musk on Twitter about the issue. Frohnhoefer later did tweet that he was “definitively stupid” to publicly correct his boss’s mistake. He posted a picture of his MacBook on Twitter which showed that his laptop was locked by the “Administrator” implying that he indeed had been fired.
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Twitter Reacts To The Public Firing Of It’s Employee
As one would imagine Twitter definitely did not take it well. Users questioned Musk and his self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” status once again. Twitter is flooded with memes and tweets sharing their support for the fired employee and questioning the Twitter head’s ego. One user tweeted, “What are you gonna do when you fire everyone who is smarter than you? No one will be left.”
CEO calls out employee. Employee corrects him. CEO fires employee for knowing what he’s talking about. Truly a god-tier leader. pic.twitter.com/S1teUlXLi2
— J. L. Foux (@jl_foux) November 14, 2022
What are you gonna do when you fire everyone who is smarter than you? No one will be left. pic.twitter.com/Ic4I9vwfyj
— Vic Berger News (VBN) (@VicBergerIV) November 14, 2022
Whilst another user named pinned a tweet that Musk had tweeted earlier: “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”
I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2022
According to reports, Musk is now laying off employees who are on contract basis also. After firing about 50 percent of Twitter workforce, (approximately 3,800 employees), Musk has now reportedly laid off at least 4,400 contractual workers at the company.
