Elon Musk fires a Twitter Engineer over declining view count
Tech billionaire and the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Twitter, Elon Musk , fired a top Twitter engineer who told him he was declining in popularity on the micro-blogging site, according to a report by The Platformer. On Tuesday, Musk met with several Twitter employees to discuss his declining view count on Twitter. He told the engineer, «You’re fired, you’re fired.» The Platformer did not reveal the name of the engineer. During the meeting, Twitter employees discussed internal data and a Google Trends chart with Musk. Google Trends data reportedly showed that Musk’s popularity dropped in recent months. An engineer told Musk that his popularity might be declining on the social media platform due to a lack of public interest since his Twitter purchase. After hearing this, Musk fired the engineer. Musk told employees that his view count was impacted by an internal issue. He asked Twitter employees to track how often his tweets are recommended on the micro-blogging site.