{"id":510558,"date":"2022-11-15T17:41:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fired-twitter-engineer-blasts-elon-musk-company\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T17:41:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:41:06","slug":"fired-twitter-engineer-blasts-elon-musk-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fired-twitter-engineer-blasts-elon-musk-company\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fired Twitter engineer blasts Elon Musk, company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a276f347851a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a276f347851a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fired-twitter-engineer-blasts-elon-musk-company\/#%E2%80%9CFired_Twitter_engineer_blasts_Elon_Musk_company%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Fired Twitter engineer blasts Elon Musk, company&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CFired_Twitter_engineer_blasts_Elon_Musk_company%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Fired Twitter engineer blasts Elon Musk, company&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> employee who was fired by tweet after criticizing Elon Musk ripped the billionaire and his advisers as a \u201cbunch of cowards\u201d \u2014 hours before the billionaire canned nearly two dozen other workers amid a brewing insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>Former Twitter software engineer Eric Frohnhoefer received a public pink slip Monday after he engaged in a war of words with Musk on the platform. <\/p>\n<p>The dispute began after Musk tweeted an apology on Sunday \u201cfor Twitter being super slow in many countries\u201d and attributed the problem to poor <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> function.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/elon-musk-3.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Elon Musk is leading a cost-cutting push at Twitter.\" class=\"wp-image-24632213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/elon-musk-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/elon-musk-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/elon-musk-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Elon Musk is leading a cost-cutting push at Twitter.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NTB\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fronhoefer refuted Musk\u2019s assertion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have spent ~6yrs working on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong,\u201d Frohnhoefer replied to Musk in a  tweet that has received more than 133,000 likes since it was posted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen please correct me. What is the right number?\u201d Musk responded. \u201cTwitter is super slow on Android. What have you done to fix that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frohnhoefer fired back with a lengthy thread explaining his view on Twitter\u2019s slow performance.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"797\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-57.jpg?w=797\" alt=\"Eric Frohnhoefer\" class=\"wp-image-24656462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-57.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1594 1594w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-57.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1195 1195w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-57.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=797 797w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-57.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=398 398w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-57.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\"\/><figcaption>Eric Frohnhoefer sparred with Elon Musk about Twitter\u2019s app performance.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter\/Eric Frohnhoefer<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think there are three reasons the app is slow,\u201d Frohnhoefer said. \u201cFirst it\u2019s bloated with features that get little usage. Second, we have accumulated years of tech debt as we have traded velocity and features over perf. Third, we spend a lot of time waiting for network responses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk did not respond to the thread, but later confirmed he had axed Frohnhoefer with a two-word tweet: \u201che\u2019s fired.\u201d The Twitter CEO <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1592186302379982849\">has since deleted the post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Monday night, Frohnhoefer had posted a photo showing he had been locked out of his company laptop.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-56.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Eric Frohnhoefer had worked at Twitter for 8 years.\" class=\"wp-image-24656460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-56.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-56.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-56.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Eric Frohnhoefer had worked at Twitter for 8 years.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter\/Eric Frohnhoefer<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cGuess it is official now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>When <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/cyrusfarivar\/2022\/11\/14\/musk-fires-twitter-engineer-on-twitter-cowards\/?sh=20eb8a2b6063\">reached by Forbes for comment<\/a>, Frohnhoefer said he had received zero communication from Twitter about his firing before his computer was locked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNope, nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re all a bunch of cowards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post has reached out to Frohnhoefer and Twitter for comment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think there are three reasons the app is slow. First it\u2019s bloated with features that get little usage. Second, we have accumulated years of tech debt as we have traded velocity and features over perf. Third, we spend a lot of time waiting for network responses.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Frohnhoefer @ \ud83c\udfe1 (@EricFrohnhoefer) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricFrohnhoefer\/status\/1591968783148920832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Frohnhoefer wasn\u2019t the only Twitter employee to be ousted for standing up to the new boss.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaseyNewton\/status\/1592539948745650176\">Platformer\u2019s Casey Newton<\/a>\u00a0reported that \u201caround 20 people\u201d were fired early Tuesday by email after criticizing Musk\u2019s leadership on internal Slack channels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe regret to inform you that your employment is terminated immediately,\u201d a message to the fired employees reportedly said. \u201cYour recent behavior has violated company policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another of the fired workers, software engineer Yao Yue, had \u201cpushed back on Musk\u2019s tweets blaming performance issues on Twitter\u2019s architecture,\u201d according to Newton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter 12 amazing years and 3 weeks of chaos, I\u2019m officially fired by Twitter,\u201d the fired\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thinkingfish\/status\/1592522358581264384\">engineer wrote on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cNever expected I would have stayed this long, and never expected I would be this relieved to be gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1004\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-59.jpg?w=1004\" alt=\"Eric Frohnhoefer\" class=\"wp-image-24656463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-59.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1506 1506w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-59.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1004 1004w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-59.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=502 502w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-android-Eric-Frohnhoefer-elon-59.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1004px) 100vw, 1004px\"\/><figcaption>Eric Frohnhoefer revealed he had been locked out of his company computer.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter\/Eric Frohnhoefer<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Musk thinned the already skeletal ranks after cutting about half of Twitter\u2019s 7,500-employee workforce in a bid to trim costs at the struggling social media site after completing his $44 billion takeover.<\/p>\n<p>He has also ended Twitter\u2019s remote work policy and nixed free lunches that he claimed were costing the company $13 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>Frohnhoefer had worked at Twitter for about eight years prior to his dismissal, according to his LinkedIn page. His role was listed as \u201cstaff software engineer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ousted engineer told Forbes that Twitter has \u201cgone downhill\u201d since Musk bought the company in October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one trusts anyone within the company anymore,\u201d Frohnhoefer said. \u201cHow can you function? Employees don\u2019t trust the new management. Management doesn\u2019t trust the employees. How do you think you\u2019re supposed to get anything done? That\u2019s why there\u2019s production freezes \u2013 you can\u2019t merge code, you can\u2019t turn things on without permission from VPs.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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