It’s not cool to be a Twitter employee right now. After having thanked half of his employees in the world at the beginning of November, Elon Musk, who reiterated the reduction of personnel related to moderation, marketing and real estate, affirmed on Twitter on Monday, November 14, that he had fired Eric Frohnhoefer. a Twitter engineer. His mistake from him? Having denied the claims of the Tesla owner who, in a tweet, regretted that the Android version of the social network was “super slow in many countries” while suggesting that this situation was due to the application being poorly coded.
Eric Frohnhoefer responded to Elon Musk’s tweet by saying his comments were simply not true. While he admitted there was “a lot of room for performance improvements on Android,” the engineer, who claims to have worked on this version of the app for six years, publicly questioned Elon Musk’s diagnosis of the cause of the speed issues. According to him, these slowdowns are particularly related to the fact that the app consists of many features that few people use. A phenomenon that leads to a decrease in fluidity. Also, it would take time for the app to connect to the network.
“You are fired”
As a solution, Frohnhoefer suggested that Twitter remove old features and avoid adding new ones. During the exchange, many users of the platform pointed out that Mr. Frohnhoefer was probably putting himself in danger by publicly correcting the new owner of Twitter. These warnings have proven to be accurate. Indeed, this Monday, November 14, Elon Musk laconically announced on Twitter the dismissal of the engineer.
The latter was content to respond ironically with an emoji.
During his exchange with Elon Musk, Frohnhoefer hinted that he had plenty of alternatives if he were to leave Twitter. He noted that his LinkedIn profile had “never been so popular” and that he had also received a message from a Reddit developer who suggested that he come work with him for the platform in question.
Source: BFM TV
