How did it all start?
On November 13, Musk in a tweet said that he would like to apologise for “Twitter being super slow in many countries.” The reason he gave was that the app was doing less than 1000 “poorly batched” remote procedure calls to load the home timeline. Musk implied that the app had to reach out to far too many servers and it was delaying the loading of homepage. To which, Eric Frohnhoefer publicly called out Musk’s mistake and said, “I have spent ~6yrs working on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong.”
Musk immediacy replied and said, “Then please correct me. What is the right number?”, before adding in another tweet, “Twitter is super slow on Android. What have you done to fix that?”
Two hours later, the engineer replied to Musk saying, “We have done a bunch of work to improve performance and we found that it correlates well with increasing UAM and Ad spend. Agree, there is plenty of room for performance improvements on Android. However, I don’t think the number of requests is the primary issue.”
The conversation between Musk and the engineer went on for quite a while. Someone in the Twitter thread asked whether Frohnhoefer should have not confronted Musk on Twitter about the issue. Musk simply said, “He’s fired”. Frohnhoefer later did tweet that he was “definitely stupid” to publicly correct his boss’s mistake. Frohnhoeferposted a picture of his MacBook on Twitter which showed that his laptop was locked by the “Administrator” implying that he indeed had been fired.
Musk, on the other hand, did tweet about it later as well and said that the “ex employee is wrong”. “I was told ~1200 RPCs independently by several engineers at Twitter, which matches # of microservices. The ex-employee is wrong.”
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