Elon Musk publicly contradicts two employees on Twitter, firing them on the spot
Elon Musk, who described himself as a defender of freedom of expression, announced that he fired an employee who corrected one of his claims on the social network. The latter publicly denied the billionaire’s explanation for the slow operation of applications in many countries.
A few days ago, Elon Musk apologized in a series of tweets for the poor performance of Twitter’s Android app, especially in some countries like India. According to the billionaire, these delays are caused by more than 1,000 “poorly distributed” remote procedure calls to load the main page. this means that the application must contact other servers multiple times and wait for a response for each request.
However, the company’s Eric Frohnhofer quoted from his tweethe has spent the last six years working on Twitter for Android, and Musk’s statement was wrong. Indeed, he said, Twitter doesn’t actually make any remote procedure calls or RPCs. It’s just “about” 20 background requests “.
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Elon Musk does not like to be corrected in public
Another employee, Ben Leib, confirmed his colleague’s claims. ” As the former CTO of Timeline Infrastructure at Twitter, I can confidently say that [Elon Musk] he doesn’t know what he’s talking about “.
Obviously, these amendments did not please the billionaire who stuck to his guns. ” It’s not so good that you don’t realize that up to 1,200 “microservices” are called when someone uses the Twitter app. “. Frohnhoefer again disagreedtweeting, “ the number needed to create a house chart is about 200 out of 1200 “.
Of course, that could have been the end of it, but the damage had already been done. Some developers supported Frohnhoefer, but others said he should have told his boss ” privately » Instead of challenging him on Twitter. ” Maybe ask a question one-on-one. You can use Slack or email simply replied Frohnhoefer.
” I’ve been told by several Twitter engineers that ~1200 RPCs independently, that’s the number of microservices. The former employee is wrong. In US it takes ~2 seconds to update the same app (too long) but ~20 seconds in India due to bad batch/detailed communication. Little actual useful information is transferred “says Elon Musk.
Elon Musk fires two employees who challenged him on Twitter
After one Twitter user asked Musk if he wanted such a person, “ this kind of attitude ” the new head of Twitter, whose team is known to be very active on social media, quickly responded: “ He is fired “. In turn, Baz Leib, who supported his colleague, also announced that he was fired.
This will probably be a lesson to other employees who dare to contradict Elon Musk in public. Twitter has been thrown into chaos since Musk took over as CEO late last month. Many employees are upset that the billionaire laid off half of his more than 7,000 employees, including most senior executives, about a week after his $44 billion purchase of the company.
Elon Musk wants to improve the performance of his Android app
After eventful conversations with former employees, Elon Musk detailed several upcoming changes that will make the Android app smoother. The billionaire says he wants Twitter to remove a feature that provides details about the device from which the tweet was sent. According to him, the line that says “Twitter for iPhone” or “Twitter for Android” waste of screen space “. He added that ” nobody knows” why this feature was introduced in the first place.
It also plans to eliminate “microservices” used by Twitter, for example, which allow subscribers to create graphs containing information about the people they follow. In a few months, we’re expecting big changes on Twitter, for better and for worse.
