Elon Musk fires Twitter employee publicly after argument over Android app

Elon Musk has fired another Twitter employee after an argument with him over the Twitter Android app. Earlier on Monday, Musk tweeted apologising to users for Twitter's slow Android app, especially in some countries. This was countered by one of the Twitter app developers, who claimed to be working on the app since the past six years.

The Twitter argument was followed by a series of tweets exchanged between the two. On the same thread, Elon went on to say, 'He's fired'. The employee named Eric Frohnhoefer has also shared a picture of him getting locked out from his system, confirming the termination. He also changed his Twitter bio to 'formerly @Twitter'. 

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

Guess it is official now. pic.twitter.com/5SRwotyD8J

— Eric Frohnhoefer @ 🏡 (@EricFrohnhoefer) November 14, 2022

Elon Musk also announced some changes coming to the app to make it more responsive. In a tweet he said, "Part of today will be turning off the “microservices” bloatware. Less than 20% are actually needed for Twitter to work!"

Elon Musk has been vocal about Twitter's past management and is now taking on the platform's technical side of things, including the removal of some features. In a tweet, Musk announced that Twitter will be removing the line under each tweet indicating which phone/operating system that tweet was sent from. 

Musk said, "And we will finally stop adding what device a tweet was written on (waste of screen space & compute) below every tweet. Literally no one even knows why we did that …"

The firing of employees has also triggered a barrage of memes highlighting Musk's firing streak, since he took over Twitter in October. Elon Musk has fired over half of company's workforce and last weekend, Twitter also started sacking contractual employees. He is said to have stopped taking services from around 4,400 contractual employees. The overall contractually workforce consisted of 5,500 employees.