[Comevius]

Take into account that between the two of them Eric is the expert.

It was Musk who failed to keep things professional. His first post was literally humiliating his own employees for writing bad code. It's his own company, he may not have been around, but it's his people now. Even if Twitter's Android client is not the best, playing the blame game is callous and petty. There is no point to trying to show that you are better than your employees either. It's the opposite of what a functional CEO should do.

[joegahona]

It was callous and petty, and I can't imagine how frayed the nerves are of current employees. Almost every higher-up I've seen come into a company has done this to some degree, and it's always annoying, but to do it actually on the product to 100mm+ followers is a new level of cruel and spiteful.

[memish]

"I was told ~1200 RPCs independently by several engineers at Twitter, which matches # of microservices. The ex-employee is wrong.

Same app in US takes ~2 secs to refresh (too long), but ~20 secs in India, due to bad batching/verbose comms. Actually useful data transferred is low."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592176202873085952

[Comevius]

There is no way to tell if this is right or wrong, we are not engineers at Twitter, and I suspect that no engineer there would dare to correct him. I'm pretty sure Twitter has an API gateway of some sort, it doesn't make sense that it's a batching issue.

But it doesn't matter who is right or wrong. The unprofessional atmosphere, the callousness, the one-upmanship is the problem. He is the CEO for God's sake. This is a PR nightmare. I know that it worked for Trump, but it isn't working even for him anymore.

[6510]

I would be tempted to throw things at the devs just to see what their response is like.