Elon Musk Fires Twitter Employee who Had Publicly Corrected Him

Elon Musk claimed that he had fired Twitter employee Eric Frohnhoefer after he had publicly corrected him on the microblogging platform.

The drama started on Sunday when Musk tweeted an apology for the poor performance of the microblogging platform in "many countries" and said that the application performs over 1,000 "poorly batched" remote procedure calls to "render a home timeline," according to The Verge.

Musk's claim was shared by Frohnhoefer, who claimed to have worked on Twitter for Android for six years, who rejected Musk's statement.

He stated, "I have spent 6 years working on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong," 

The microblogging platform doesn't do any remote procedure calls, says Frohnhoefer.

Instead, he claimed that during startup, it takes about 20 background requests, The Verge reports.

Musk responded, saying: "The fact that you don't realise that there are up to 1200 microservices being called when someone uses the Twitter app is not great."

Frohnhoefer tweeted that the "number required to generate the home timeline is closer to 200 than 1,200".expressing his disagreement once more.

A Twitter user responded to the developer's tweet that "maybe Musk should ask questions privately", to which the Twitter CEO replied: "He's fired." by saying that Musk probably didn't want Frohnhoefer on his team.