Since the American billionaire Elon Musk acquired ownership of Twitter, the social network management has taken the decision to lay off thousands of employees, in addition to some administrators submitting their voluntary resignations.
But it seems that one of the most recent dismissals came for personal reasons, as The Verge reported that the new CEO fired an employee simply for his public opposition.
The story began Sunday, November 13, 2022, when Musk tweeted, apologizing for the slowness of “Twitter” in many countries, attributing the problem to the fact that the application performed more than a thousand remote calls - or what is technically known as “remote procedure calls” (RPCs). - To refresh the users home page.
A remote procedure call is a "protocol" that can be used to request a service from a program on another computer on a network, without having to understand the details of the network.
According to Musk, these processes are "poorly compiled", as they require the application to contact other servers several times, and wait for the server to respond to each request, which leads to this slowness.
For his part, Twitter employee Eric Fronhofer quoted Musk's tweet, and responded to it by saying that he spent 6 years working on the "Twitter" application for the Android system, and he can say that what was stated in the CEO's tweet is incorrect.
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
According to Fronhofer, the "Twitter" application does not make remote connections, indicating that it submits about 20 connection requests when it is opened.
To clarify his original tweet, Musk then replied, "The fact that you don't seem to realize that there are up to 1,200 (mini-services) called when someone uses our app, which isn't cool."
So Fronhofer disagreed with his boss again, and said that “the number required to create the entire homepage schedule is closer to 200 than to 1200”, which is much less than what Musk mentioned.
The conversation lasted for several hours, and in one of the tweets, Musk Fronhofer asked what he personally did to fix the slowness of Twitter on Android, in response to a discussion among the audience about whether it was correct for the engineer, Fronhofer, to object to Musk's original tweet privately and officially, such as the Slack application. (Slack), rather than publicly opposing him and correcting his statements.
Twitter is super slow on Android.
What have you done to fix that?
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2022
Later, Musk responded to a commenter that Fronhofer had been "fired," after the developer said the CEO should have asked his questions about the slowness issues internally rather than posting them on Twitter.
Hours later, Musk deleted his tweet about Fronhofer's dismissal, while the employee told Forbes that Twitter had blocked his access to the company's computer, but he had not received any official notification that he had been fired.
This isn't the first time Musk has been wrong about how Twitter works.
He wrote last Sunday that the site is "the biggest driver of clicks on the Internet so far", which was answered immediately by many users around the world who know the power of "Google" and "Facebook".
The tweeters also used the "Birdwatch" feature to respond to Musk's tweet, which is a feature provided by "Twitter" and allows incorrect information to be indicated on the site to correct Musk, who later deleted his tweet.