- Twitter engineer, Elon Musk, publicly disagreed about the app’s performance on Android devices.
- Musk replied by tweeting that Eric Frohnhoefer (who worked at Twitter for more 6 years) would be fired.
- Frohnhoefer posted an image of his locked-out laptop hours later, saying, “guess it’s official now.”
Software engineer Eric Frohnhoefer was fired just a day after publicly disagreeing about Twitter’s performance on Android devices with Elon Musk, the new Twitter owner.
After the new owner, Musk and Frohnhoefer sparred over Twitter on Sunday PostedHe’d like to “express his regret for Twitter being slow in many countries.”
“App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!” Musk Tweet as an explanation, to which Frohnhoefer — who worked as a software engineer at Twitter for over 6 years — Please replyMusk was “wrong”.
Musk challenged Musk to explain his efforts to improve Twitter’s performance using Android devices. Musk was subsequently rewarded with the challenge. publicFrohnhoefer’s comments should be retracted. Frohnhoefer outlined his work as well as the areas that could be improved in a Longer threadMusk didn’t interact with them.
—Eric Frohnhoefer @ 🏡 (@EricFrohnhoefer) November 14, 2022
Musk responded to a user’s comment on Frohnhoefer’s attitude by saying, “You probably don’t need this guy on your staff.” Tweeted simply, “He’s fired.”
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2022
Frohnhoefer took a snap of his locked-out computer and tweeted it six hours later.
—Eric Frohnhoefer @ 🏡 (@EricFrohnhoefer) November 14, 2022
This is the most recent layoff in public among a Numerous layoffsMusk has done since he became Twitter’s chief executive. Musk was just a weekend ago. Twitter’s contract staff have been laid offSome employees affected claimed they were not given adequate notice about impending layoffs.
Frohnhoefer’s heated Twitter exchange between Musk and Musk is not the first time Musk has publicly argued with employees of the social network. Musk and a former employee of Twitter met Monday. Conflict over Twitter’s free lunch programWhen he stated that the cost of a lunch in the last 12 months was more than $400
Insider asked Musk, Frohnhoefer, and Twitter to comment but did not respond immediately.
