- An engineer at Twitter publicly disagreed with Elon Musk about the app’s functionality on Android products.
- In reaction, Musk tweeted that Eric Frohnhoefer, who worked at Twitter for additional than 6 yrs, would be fired.
- Hours later, Frohnhoefer posted a image of his locked out work notebook, indicating “guess it is official now.”
A day following publicly disagreeing with new Twitter owner Elon Musk about the social platform’s functionality on Android gadgets, software engineer Eric Frohnhoefer has been fired.
Musk and Frohnhoefer sparred on Twitter on Sunday after the new proprietor posted he’d “like to apologize for Twitter becoming tremendous gradual in many countries.”
“Application is executing >1000 improperly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!” Musk tweeted as an clarification, to which Frohnhoefer — who labored as a program engineer at Twitter for above 6 decades — replied declaring Musk was “wrong.”
Musk then challenged the engineer to explain what he’d carried out to improve Twitter’s general performance on Android gadgets, which spurred public remarks that Frohnhoefer must be terminated. Frohnhoefer specific his function and the parts for potential enhancement in a longer thread, which Musk did not interact with.
—Eric Frohnhoefer @ 🏡 (@EricFrohnhoefer) November 14, 2022
As a substitute, in response to one person who commented on Frohnhoefer’s mind-set and advised Musk “you almost certainly you should not want this guy on your staff,” Musk tweeted simply just “He’s fired.”
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2022
About 6 hours later, Frohnhoefer tweeted a image of his locked out perform laptop or computer, indicating “guess it is official now.”
—Eric Frohnhoefer @ 🏡 (@EricFrohnhoefer) November 14, 2022
This is the most modern public layoff amongst a host of layoffs that Musk has carried out ever due to the fact he took more than Twitter as its main government. Just around the weekend, Musk laid off Twitter’s deal team, with some afflicted workers expressing they weren’t supplied good detect of impending layoffs.
Frohnhoefer and Musk’s heated trade on Twitter is not the very first time the billionaire has publicly parried with the social platform’s staffers. On Monday, Musk and a former Twitter worker clashed above the price of Twitter’s no cost lunch application when he claimed the believed charge for every lunch served in the earlier 12 months exceeded $400.
Musk, Twitter and Frohnhoefer did not quickly reply to Insider’s requests for remark.
