Elon Fired This Twitter Engineer

Elon Musk in a series of tweets fired a Twitter employee.

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On November 13, Elon Musk tweeted and apologized “Twitter being super slow in many countries.”

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Later, Eric Frohnhoefer quote retweeted Musk’s tweet and wrote, “I have spent ~6yrs working on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong.”

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Following this Elon Musk asked him “Then please correct me. What is the right number?”

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In between, a user pointed out Eric and said he should have informed his boss “privately”.

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Eric replied, “Maybe he should ask questions privately” via Slack or E-Mail.

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Elon Musk ended the conversation with just posting, “He’s fired”.

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