At least three Twitter staff who survived the mass layoffs that reduce the corporate’s workforce in half have been fired after calling out their new boss on the platform. One of them is Eric Frohnhoefer, who responded to Elon Musk’s tweet apologizing for Twitter being gradual in lots of nations. “App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!” Musk wrote. Frohnhoefer responded that after six years of engaged on Twitter for Android, he can say that Musk’s assertion “is wrong.” 

The multi-company government then asked him what the best quantity was and what has he carried out to repair Twitter for Android, which has been “super slow.” He replied with the work his staff has carried out for the app and listed a number of causes on why it is gradual: “First it’s 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.”

Their trade went on in a number of threads, and when one consumer informed Frohnhoefer that he ought to’ve knowledgeable his boss privately, he replied: “Maybe he should ask questions privately. Maybe using Slack or email.” After that, Musk knowledgeable everybody on Twitter that Fronhoefer had been fired.

The former Twitter app engineer informed Forbes that he had gotten no communication from Twitter about his dismissal and that his laptop computer “just shut off.” He added that “[n]o one trusts anyone within the company anymore,” so it has been laborious to perform. The former Twitter worker additionally stated that earlier than Musk took over, “people were more open and felt that they could criticize and now that’s clearly not the case.”

Another engineer named Ben Leib was additionally fired, Bloomberg has confirmed. Leib additionally responded to the identical apology tweet by Musk, saying that as a former “tech lead for timelines infrastructure at Twitter,” their new proprietor had no concept what he was speaking about. And then there’s Sasha Solomon, a tech lead for the corporate who chimed in along with her personal response to the identical Musk tweet and who later announced that she, too, bought fired.

There have been huge modifications over at Twitter after Elon Musk formally bought the corporate. He instantly dismissed its high executives, together with CEO Parag Agrawal, and ordered mass layoffs that noticed round 50 p.c of the social community’s staff lose their jobs. Twitter additionally launched the $8-a-month Blue subscription that supplied everybody who pays entry to immediate verification. Making the blue checkmark straightforward to acquire, nevertheless, led to the rise in impersonation and legitimate-looking pretend accounts on the web site.