New York (Daily Pakistan Online) Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and the owner of Twitter, fired a Twitter engineer for arguing with him on the social media network.
According to The Verge, an engineer named Eric Frohnhoefer was fired by Twitter’s new CEO for publicly arguing with him. The controversy began on November 13 when Elon Musk apologized in a tweet. That Twitter is working very slowly in several countries and according to them the reason for this is due to poor coding.
The engineer replied to this tweet that he has been working on Twitter’s Android app for 6 years and he can say that Elon Musk is wrong. The engineer said that there is room to improve the performance of the Android app. Yes, but the reason given by Elon Musk is not correct.
Eric Frohnhoefer said that the main reason for the problems is that the app is packed with features that few people use.
The discussion then escalated and went beyond the Android app. Later, when a user questioned the engineer’s behavior, Elon Musk responded by saying that he had been fired. The tweet has now been deleted. has been done and the engineer while talking to the media confirmed that after 5 hours of discussion the company had locked his computer.
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
He said the company had not given any formal notice of the layoffs. Keep in mind that Elon Musk bought Twitter in late October and has since laid off hundreds of employees.
