Elon Musk’s Twitter become a terrifying place to work as Musk fires employees for correcting him
Elon Musk’s Twitter is going through a difficult phase as Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk fancies himself a free speech absolutist and it is because he says he bought Twitter!
Although, as Twitter’s employees are finding out, those beliefs in free speech do not seem to extend to those working for him.
In recent weeks, Elon Musk executes a plan of massive layoffs and has fired a number of employees for correcting his public tweets or criticizing his leadership in the company’s Slack channels. On Tuesday, Musk went even further by publicly reveling in their dismissals. Twitter’s new owner described one fired employee as “a tragic case of adult-onset Tourette’s” in a reply to a tweet from @LibsofTikTok, an account run by a right-wing influencer whose anti-LGBTQ messaging was recently blamed for threats being sent to children’s hospitals. “I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses,” Elon Musk also sarcastically tweeted about his former employees. “Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere.” These most recent issues appeared after Elon Musk fired off the following tweet criticizing Elon Musk’s Twitter and the job his employees had done.
“Btw, I’d like to apologize for Twitter being super slow in many countries,” Musk mentioned and continued to say “App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!” Long-time Twitter engineers soon called out Musk, claiming the information he provided was false. “I have spent nearly 6yrs working on Twitter for Android and can strongly say this is wrong,” software engineer Eric Frohnhoefer tweeted, including Musk’s comment as a quote tweet. “Then please correct me. What is the right number?” Musk replied to that. He further added “Twitter is super slow on Android. What have you done to fix that?” In response, Frohnhoefer actually tweeted a lengthy and thought-out response to Elon Musk explaining the issue and what could be done.
