The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk has become, day after day, one of the worst seasons of game of Thrones We’ve seen in years.
All due in large part to the terrible financial, strategic, technological and even common sense decisions made by the supposedly richest man in the world.
The account of how Musk ended up buying Twitter practically against his will, after an apparent strategy to inflate the value of its stock shares before reselling them went terribly wrong, has already been covered several times.
But since the first week of the social network’s operations under the command of Elon Musk, dozens of tragic stories have emerged destined to become academic case studies on what not to do in such scenarios.
For example, in one of the most recent twists in this complicated soap opera, Musk has felt the urge to blow up more of his in-house technical workforce after firing nearly half of them, seizing the opportunity to remain a viral personality in the process.
So you’ve used your own Twitter presence to dismiss immediately programmers, technicians and platform specialists who criticize what the subject has been doing with the social network.
Former Facebook executive suggests Elon Musk stop firing those who know what they are doing and criticize him
the colleagues of Business Insider They have published an interesting article where Alex Stamos, the former Head of Security at Facebook, has openly and directly criticized what Musk is doing.
All after the recent performance problem of the Android app that has become extremely slow in its loading and updating times will be addressed.
Well, this Tuesday, November 15, Stamos offered a series of direct advice from your own personal Twitter account on how to fix that lag:
3) Ship optimized TLS/QUIC stack in Twitter Android client, not relying on local OS libraries. Use TLS 1.3 0-RTT for initial connections.
4) Invest in more edge servers with dedicated backend links.
5) Place first non-US DC in Asia, probably Singapore.
—Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) November 15, 2022
7) Stop firing best engineers for correcting your clear misstatements.
—Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) November 15, 2022
The thread is made up of a long series of critiques, technical advice and common sense observations ending with the writing: “stop firing your best engineers for correcting your clearly misstatements”.
This last observation would be a direct allusion to the case of the engineer Eric Frohnhoefer who worked on Twitter and went viral on said social network after pointing out that a tweet by Elon Musk was wrong and revealed a relative lack of technical knowledge.