The multi-company executive then asked him what the right number was and what he was doing to fix Twitter for Android, which was “super slow.” He countered with the work his team has done on the app and listed a few reasons why it’s slow: “First, it’s bloated with features that are rarely used. Second, we’ve accumulated years of tech debt as we’ve traded off speed and features. perf . Third, we spend a lot of time waiting for network responses.” Their exchange continued in several threads, and when one user told Frohnhoefer that he should have informed his boss privately, he responded: “Maybe he should ask questions privately. Maybe using Slack or email.” After that, Musk informed everyone on Twitter that Fronhoefer was fired. The former Twitter application engineer told Forbes that he had not received any communication from Twitter about his firing and that his laptop “just shut down.” He added that “[n]o one trusts anyone inside the company anymore,” so it was difficult to operate. The former Twitter employee also said that before Musk took over, “people were more open and felt like they could criticize, and now that’s clearly not the case.” Another engineer named Ben Leib was also fired, Bloomberg confirmed. Leib also responded to Musk’s same apology tweet, saying that as the former “technology lead for Twitter’s timeline infrastructure,” their new owner had no idea what he was talking about. And then there’s Sasha Solomon, a technology leader for the company who issued her own response to Musk’s same tweet, and who later announced that she, too, had been fired. you didn’t dismiss almost all of the below and then make some arbitrary remark about how we batch like you bothered to learn how graphql works https://t.co/eUhZuZZyid — [email protected] (@sachee) November 13, 2022 There have been huge changes at Twitter since Elon Musk officially bought the company. He immediately fired his top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, and ordered massive layoffs that saw around 50% of the social network’s employees lose their jobs. Twitter also launched the $8-a-month Blue subscription that gave everyone who can pay access to instant verification. However, the easy acquisition of the blue checkmark has led to the rise of impersonation and legitimate fake accounts on the site. All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories contain affiliate links. If you purchase something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at time of publication.
