Elon Musk fired at least two Twitter engineers who publicly criticized him on the social network, in one case announcing the firing in a now-deleted tweet
Bloomberg Kurt Wagner
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Vox
Shirin Ghaffary
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Elon Musk can't take a joke
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@ericfrohnhoefer
@ericfrohnhoefer
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🫡 https://twitter.com/...
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@tweetsbyparker
@tweetsbyparker
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in honor of removing the device indicator in tweets, I want to pay tribute to dorothy https://twitter.com/...
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@bgleib
Ben Leib
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As the former tech lead for timelines infrastructure at Twitter, I can confidently say this man has no idea wtf he's talking about https://twitter.com/...
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@elivalley
@elivalley
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Anybody who's referred to Musk as a “free speech absolutist” and not as one of the most ruthless opponents of free speech in generations is a liar or a mark https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@carnage4life
@carnage4life
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More Twitter employees are publicly criticizing Elon for making up stories about how Twitter works and getting fired. It's becoming a wave of mass insubordination with Twitter engineers going out in a blaze of glory. Every time I think this acquisition can't get worse, it does. h…
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@schrep
Mike Schroepfer
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Basic internet math for @elonmusk's claim load time in India is 20s because of 1200 RPC calls (v.s. 2s in US): Bangalore->SF is ~250ms 1200 *.25s = 5 minutes! Way off!! 20s load time = MAX of 80 sequential calls Reality is likely 5-10? 1200 is happing inside datacenter? https://t…
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@holman
Zach Holman
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Pretty incredible thread where Elon confuses how GraphQL works, thinks the Android client itself is making one thousand requests, and then publicly fires an employee who corrects him. Twitter's doing great, tho https://twitter.com/...
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@jessefeinman
@jessefeinman
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Same, the best way to go! https://twitter.com/...
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@gergelyorosz
Gergely Orosz
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@Carnage4Life Not seen so many tech people going out in public, taking a deliberate stand. The 4th software engineer fired for the same thing, and the first non-US employee. https://twitter.com/...
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@cfarivar
@cfarivar
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Elon has now deleted the “he's fired” tweet. AFAIK, @EricFrohnhoefer still lost his job. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@apark2453
@apark2453
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If you were looking for dozens of “well duh there are consequences for speech” and “so what, he has the right to do that” from dudes who screeched endlessly about how Twitter having the right to ban speech doesn't mean they ever should, you can find it in the replies here. https:…