Eric Frohnhoefer, a senior engineer at Twitter, didn’t just get fired the normal way at a company that has cut 50% of its staff over the past few weeks. He got fired via a tweet by Elon Musk himself.
Frohnhoefer tangled with Musk in a thread about the Twitter application on Android, which Frohnhoefer worked on while at the company, according to Bloomberg. Musk tweeted on Nov. 13 that Twitter functioned slowly in so many countries because the application consisted of “1,000 poorly batched RPCs,” or remote procedure calls.
“I have spent ~6yrs working on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong,” Frohnhoefer responded.
I have spent ~6yrs working on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong. https://t.co/sh30ZxpD0N
— Eric Frohnhoefer @ 🏡 (@EricFrohnhoefer) November 13, 2022
