Posted: Updated – Tue, 11/15/22 11:46AM
A few hours later, the engineer replied to Musk, and the conversation between the two continued for some time.
Hyderabad: After taking over Twitter and laying off many employees, new Twitter CEO Elon Musk has now fired a member of the Android app development team in a tweet.
On November 13th, Musk tweeted an apology for the slowness of Twitter, “By the way, I want to apologize for the super slow speed of Twitter in many countries. The application is performing more than 1000 bad batch RPC, Just to render the homepage timeline! (sic) “What Musk is saying is that the app has to hit a lot of servers and it’s delaying the loading of the homepage.
Eric Frohnhoefer responded to Musk’s tweet while criticizing his mistake, saying, “I’ve spent about 6 years on Twitter working on Android and can say it’s wrong.” Immediately after, the billionaire replied “Then please correct me. What’s the correct number?”, before adding another tweet, “Twitter is super slow on Android. What have you done to fix this?
I’ve spent about 6 years working on Twitter for Android and can say it’s wrong. https://t.co/sh30ZxpD0N
— Eric Frohnhoefer @🏡 (@EricFrohnhoefer) November 13, 2022
A few hours later, the engineer replied to Musk, and the conversation between the two continued for a while. Soon, users started reacting to the tweets. “I’ve been a developer for 20 years. I can tell you that as a domain expert here, you should inform your boss privately. Trying to be around him in public while he’s hard at work and helpful makes you look Like a malicious self-help developer,” one developer tweeted.
I have been a developer for 20 years. I can tell you that as a domain expert here, you should inform your boss privately.
Trying to be around him in public while he’s trying to learn and helpful will make you look like a malicious self-serving developer.
— Money Nerd Techie (@pokemoniku) November 14, 2022
One of the users then tagged Musk, asking if he wanted an employee on his team with “that attitude,” to which the Twitter boss replied: “He got fired.”
he was fired
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2022
Frohnhoefer later responded to Musk’s tweet with a tribute emoji, and also tweeted a photo of his MacBook showing his laptop being locked by “admin” with the text “Guess.” It’s official now”, which means he’s been fired.
Guess it’s official now. pic.twitter.com/5SRwotyD8J
— Eric Frohnhoefer @🏡 (@EricFrohnhoefer) November 14, 2022
