 Whilst the exact numbers are unknown, the Mirror understands upwards of eight and possibly as many as a dozen employees have been fired for comments they made online, criticising Musk or pushing back against comments he made slamming Twitter. Eric Frohnhoefer, one such employee, took to Twitter to reply to some of his new boss' tweets that highlighted issues leading to Twitter being 'super slow in many countries'. The now former-Twitter employee said that Elon's claims the app was 'doing" 1,000 poorly batched RPCs [remote procedure calls] just to render a home timeline' were wrong and after the ensuing conversation, the Twitter employee was fired seemingly as a result. He was far from the only one. Other employees were also let go by Musk for either speaking out publicly, o){kind=link}
Elon Musk has reportedly fired a number of Twitter employees who publicly spoke out against him on the platform with reports suggesting 20 were fired for what they said internally
Elon Musk has allegedly embarked on a brutal crackdown against Twitter employees who have spoken out against him online and internally.
The new Twitter boss came under fire after mass layoffs that saw him jettison half the company’s staff at short notice.
Since then, he has launched and backtracked on a number of features, including the Twitter Blue subscription service which immediately ran into problems as it allowed anyone to impersonate any company or individual they wanted.
This included one episode that reportedly saw a few fake tweets erase billions from the stock value of company Eli Lilly.